¡Alto Arizona!

Kris Kobach, SB 1070 co-author, is advisor for Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney

Source: ABC15.com

PHOENIX - One of the authors behind Arizona's controversial immigration law says he's now an advisor to presidential candidate Mitt Romney.

Kris Kobach, told ABC15 he's an unpaid advisor guiding Romney on immigration issues.

"Well I'm providing advice on the best approach to immigration enforcement and immigration law generally," said Kobach in a phone interview Tuesday night.

Arizona to Nativist Lobby: “Stop Cheating on Me!”

State Feels Spurned by Anti-immigrants’ Expanded Focus

 “I used to be Tanton’s one and only,” Arizona sobbed in a confessional interview last week, speaking of John Tanton the head of the FAIR network responsible for today’s anti-immigrant climate.

 Arizona called for the interview last week after attention began to drift as other states such as Kentucky and Mississippi introduced and passed SB 1070-like legislation in their own legislatures.

Second Amendment Remedies - DailyKos

Second Amendment Remedies (with pictures)

ShareNew   0

by Land of Enchantment

Sat Jan 08, 2011 at 10:47:24 AM PST

 

I did some picture research on "tea party darlings" last fall, including the guy who ran against Giffords and came close to unseating her.  These are from his campaign site, from his FB page.  Giffords won a close race over a man who held shooting range events to "target" her.

Damn.  They're saying now that she'll survive; here's hoping she can fully recover, too.  Others are confirmed dead.

Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and six others died after a gunman opened fire at a public event on Saturday, the Pima County, Ariz., sheriff's office confirms.

• Land of Enchantment's diary :: ::

Update late in the afternoon:  TV now reports that she's out of surgery and in critical condition.  Amongst the dead is a nine-year-old.

Also, I've heard mention that there's a second arrest with additional ones being sought.  But not reported, so time will tell on that.  Meanwhile, Jared Loughner's looking a lot like a right wing nutcase.

Here's a freeze frame from one of his videos, posted 3 weeks ago:

Congresswoman Giffords was one of those on Sarah Palin's "target" map.

More pix from Kelly's campaign organization:

This was the guy who ran against her, himself.  (Above and below.)

This from the candidate's FB page.

Obviously, Kelly didn't shoot her, but this approach emboldens those who aren't quite so self-restrained.  Here with one of his idols?  He posted the picture, anyhhow.

We have to wait to see who did it, and if she even survives.  I've already heard rumors that she died.

In the chaos of the moment, she's been reported dead.  But also critically injured, but still alive.

I'm thinking too about Congressman Raul Grijalva, from the neighboring district, who's had bullets shot into his office.

Police said someone shot a gun into Rep. Raul Grijalva's office early Thursday.  Officials said the bullet shattered a window. Detectives are looking into a possible motive.

Rep. Michele Bachmann says her tears are flowing at the news.  No acknowledgment that she might have been wrong calling for her supporters to be "armed and dangerous":

 

Rep. Sinema Threatend for Militia Ban Proposal

E.J. Montini

Arizona Republic columnist
Jan. 30, 2007 | 12:00 AM

Last year, state Rep. Kyrsten Sinema introduced a bill that essentially would have outlawed civilian border patrol groups like the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps.

The proposal went nowhere, just as she expected.

"It got a brief mention in (Phoenix) New Times and that was it," she says.

As a liberal Democrat operating in a Legislature controlled by conservative Republicans, Sinema understands the odds against the passage of such a proposal.

Still, this year, she introduced her bill again.

House Bill 2286 reads, in part:

"An individual or group of individuals commits domestic terrorism if the individual or group of individuals are not affiliated with a local, state or federal law enforcement entity and associate with another individual or group of individuals as an organization, group, corporation or company for the purpose of patrolling to detect alleged illegal activity or to individually patrol for the purpose of detecting alleged illegal activity and if the individual or group of individuals is armed with a firearm or other weapon."

Sinema said that it isn't the honest intentions of most people affiliated with such organizations that bother her but a belief that they attract racist extremists and other xenophobic recruits to their cause.

A History of Hate: Arizona. Political Violence in a Rogue State

Best viewed in full screen mode.

A History of Hate: Political Violence in Arizona on Prezi

Exclusive Footage: Arizona Senator Russell Pearce endorsed White Supremacist J.T. Ready

 

This video shows State Senator Russell Pearce endorsing JT Ready (AZ's most famous White Supremacist) in 2006 for Mesa City Council. The footage has never been seen by the public until now. The footage and the Mormon Document and picture was given to Steve Lemons (Phoenix New Times) by a confidential source. He gave me a copy. You can get more info here: http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2010-12-16/news/webline/

FAIR-y Tales

By Terry Greene Sterling Wednesday, Dec 1 2010

On June 5, hundreds rallied at the Wesley Bolin Memorial Plaza in Phoenix in support of SB 1070, the harshest state immigration law in the nation, which had been signed by Governor Jan Brewer six weeks earlier.

The crowd of mostly middle-aged, working-class Anglos waved handmade signs blaring such things as:

"14 Million Jobless Americans; 13 Million Illegals, DO THE MATH, MR. PRESIDENT."
 
And:

"SB 1070 is not racist!"

It was a hot day. People were sunburned. Some wore American-flag shirts, American-flag baseball caps, or American-flag necklaces. Some carried American flags. They stood in the sun to hear a lineup of speakers deliver the same victory-themed message: Americans are under siege by hordes of illegal invaders who steal their jobs and suck up public benefits and, in this economy, how much more can Americans be expected to endure?

The call-to-arms message: Enough is enough, rise up, get active, donate, vote, stop illegal immigration now — before it's too late.

The orators included black activist Ted Hayes ("Amnesty is racist. This country doesn't belong to anyone else but us"), Colonel Al Rodriguez ("Mexicans, you don't speak for me"), Terry Anderson, the now-deceased California radio talk-show host ("Jackpot babies"), NumbersUSA lobbyist Rosemary Jenks ("Amnesty destroys America"), immigration hardliner and soon-to-lose Colorado gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo ("Barack Obama . . . will open our borders"), and the self-professed author and sponsor of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, state Senator Russell Pearce.

Dressed in a Hawaiian shirt and blue jeans, Pearce beamed as the crowd chanted gratitude for SB 1070: "Thank you, Russell. Thank you, Russell."

Pearce joked about how maybe Barack Obama himself didn't have papers.

Then he justified SB 1070 by reciting the "hard costs" of illegal immigration to Arizona taxpayers — $2.7 billion in a time of "high unemployment and record foreclosures."

Later, J.D. Hayworth, an immigration hardliner, former talk-show host, and U.S. Senate candidate who would soon be clobbered in the Republican primary by John McCain, began his $25-a-plate fundraising barbecue in the plaza.

Pearce and Tancredo, who are friends and political allies, were among the featured speakers at the Hayworth fundraiser. They enthused about what was to be Pearce's next legislative effort, in 2011, to challenge the 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by denying American citizenship to Arizona babies born to undocumented parents.

Like many successful illegal-immigration populists, Russell Pearce gets his "hard costs of illegal immigration," and his talking points, from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Washington, D.C.-based, self-described public interest nonprofit founded in 1979.

The Colcom Foundation- Funding the Hate

June 27, 2010...3:59 pm

In examining the coverage of the rise of anti-immigrant sentiment in the US, it is readily apparent that the bulk of the majority of groups involved with the day-to-day workings of this movement are interrelated.

Most of these groups share personnel, support the work of each other and draw their funding and strategic direction from John Tanton.

A famous John Tanton quote:

John Tanton:

“I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.” – Dec. 10, 1993, letter to the late Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecology professor

In the course of noticing these patterns it is well known who Tanton is funding, but who funds John Tanton?

Who is Really Behind all the Anti-Latino #Immigrant Movement???

From C.I

Friends - Please take the time to read this entire document, and explore its related links. It is the single most important information you need, to understand and counter-attack what's behind the anti-Latino/anti-Immigrant movement:

It is extremely important that all the organizations and everybody in this country that are fighting against the hate-speech, anti-minorities, and the anti-immigrant/anti-Latino monster, to finally target the head of the snake.

We are never going to accomplish fairness until we get to the head of the snake. The xenophobic snake has always being there, it has managed to infiltrate every important branch of our society, including politics, education, the English Media and shamefully even the SPANISH MEDIA / Univision!

The xenophobic evil snake has manipulatively "conducted" "studies and research" that portrays minorities, specifically Latinos and Blacks as inferior sub-classes. In the last few years, the evil monster has concentrated on attacking, scapegoating and demonizing Hispanics and Latino-Immigrants.

The evil racist monster is John Tanton/FAIR, he has created a web of anti-immigrant organizations, but its HEAD IS The Federation for American Immigration Reform, whom cleverly goes by the initials of "FAIR". Its founder is John Tanton, MD http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/about/board_of_directors

#Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream (via Anti-Defamation League)

from Anti-Defamation League's Report: Immigrants Targeted: Extremist Rhetoric Moves into the Mainstream

About This Report

Immigration remains a deeply polarizing issue in American politics and public life. Serious policy questions remain about the best way to reform America’s immigration system but the debate has also been framed, at times, by vitriolic anti-immigrant – and particularly anti-Latino – rhetoric and propaganda.  Purveyors of this extremist rhetoric use stereotypes and outright bigotry to target immigrants and hold them responsible for numerous societal ills.

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), which previously has documented how extremist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis have exploited the immigration issue to advance their own agenda, has become increasingly concerned about the virulent anti-immigrant and anti-Latino rhetoric employed by a handful of groups and coalitions that have positioned themselves as legitimate, mainstream advocates against illegal immigration in America.

In 2008, these anti-immigrant advocates have attempted to reinvigorate the immigration debate by forming new coalitions. At a press conference announcing its formation, one coalition openly joined together local citizen groups located far from the Mexican/United States border with virulently anti-Latino border vigilante groups that send armed volunteers to patrol the border.  Another coalition has run mainstream newspaper ads that exploit the American public’s concerns about the environment by blaming immigrants for traffic congestion, damage to the public infrastructure, and high fuel prices.  These coalitions are attempting to broaden their base and legitimize their views through media outreach.

In addition, local citizen groups continue to hold rallies and events where speakers routinely blame undocumented immigrants and their children for a wide range of problems from “dumbing down” American schools to depleting community resources, to being the main cause of crime and disease in this country. The demonization of immigrants has led to an increased sense of fear in communities around the country and created a toxic environment in which hateful rhetoric targeting immigrants has become routine. 

Unlike the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis, who make no attempt to hide their racism and bigotry, these anti-immigrant groups and coalitions often use more subtle language to demonize immigrants and foreigners.  They are frequently quoted in the media, have been called to testify before Congress, and often hold meetings with lawmakers and other public figures.  However, under the guise of warning people about the impact of illegal immigration, anti-immigrant advocates often invoke the same dehumanizing, racist stereotypes as hate groups. And increasingly, they do not make a distinction between illegal and legal immigrants.

A closer look at the public record reveals that some of these supposedly mainstream organizations have disturbing links to, or relationships with, extremists in the anti-immigration movement.  Often identified in the media or their mission statements as “anti-illegal immigration advocacy groups,” they attempt to distort the debate over immigration by fomenting fear and spreading unfounded propaganda through the use of several key tactics:

• Describing immigrants as “third world invaders,” who come to America to destroy our heritage, “colonize” the country and attack our “way of life.”  This charge is used against Latinos, Asians and other people of color.


• Using terminology that describes immigrants as part of “hordes” that “swarm” over the border. This dehumanizing language has become common.


• Portraying immigrants as carriers of diseases like leprosy, tuberculosis, Chagas disease (a potentially fatal parasitic disease), dengue fever, polio, malaria.


• Depicting immigrants as criminals, murderers, rapists, terrorists, and a danger to children and families.


• Propagating conspiracy theories about an alleged secret “reconquista” plot by Mexican immigrants to create a “greater Mexico” by seizing seven states in the American Southwest that once belonged to Mexico. 


• Blaming immigrants for eroding American culture, institutions and quality of life and impacting our environment and natural resources.

In this report, part of a series of reports on immigration and extremism, ADL exposes those individuals and groups who are playing a key a role in mainstreaming extremist rhetoric in the immigration debate in various aspects of American life.

"FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform): The Action Arm" by the Southern Poverty Law Center

02/2009

The forces seeking to sharply reduce the number of immigrants coming to America won a stunning victory in June 2007, when nativist anger at an "amnesty" for the undocumented scuttled a major bipartisan immigration reform package backed by President Bush. Many members of Congress were completely unprepared for the flood of angry E-mails, phone calls and faxes they received — an inundation so massive that the phone system collapsed under the weight of more than 400,000 faxes.

They should not have been surprised. The furious nativist tide was largely driven by an array of immigration restriction organizations that has been built up over the course of more than 20 years into fixtures in the nation's capital.

The vast majority of these groups were founded or funded by John Tanton, a major architect of the contemporary nativist movement who, 20 years ago, was already warning of a destructive "Latin onslaught" heading to the United States. Most of these organizations used their vast resources in the days leading up to a vote on the bill to stir up a nativist backlash that ultimately resulted in its death.

FAIR official Dan Stein testified before a House Judiciary subcommittee in 2003, one of dozens of FAIR appearances before Congress since 2000. FAIR's opinion is sought despite its well-documented links to extremism.

At the center of the Tanton web is the nonprofit Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the most important organization fueling the backlash against immigration. Founded by Tanton in 1979, FAIR has long been marked by anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes. It has mixed this bigotry with a fondness for eugenics, the idea of breeding better humans discredited by its Nazi associations. It has accepted $1.2 million from an infamous, racist eugenics foundation. It has employed officials in key positions who are also members of white supremacist groups. Recently, it has promoted racist conspiracy theories about Mexico's secret designs on the American Southwest and an alternative theory alleging secret plans to merge the United States, Mexico and Canada. In 2006, a senior FAIR official sought "advice" from the leaders of a racist Belgian political party.

Colbert Report - Kris Kobach Video (Architect of #SB1070)

Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Kris Kobach, primary architect of Arizona Senate Bill 1070, wants to fight illegal immigration on the local level and reward the people willing to come to this country legally. (05:49)

Kobach has ties to Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), according to Wikipedia, "aside from doing legal work for FAIR, Kobach accepted $10,000 from a FAIR-related political action committee, U.S. Immigration Reform PAC." Kris Korbach is the Immigration Reform Law Institute’s national expert on constitutional issues. This Institute is the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

The Southern Poverty Law Center has accused FAIR of being a "hate group" funded by a eugenics foundation, Pioneer Fund. FAIR was founded on January 2, 1979 by John Tanton who is known as the founder of many anti-immigration and environmentalist groups. Under John Tanton's leadership FAIR was criticized for taking funding for many years from the Pioneer Fund, an organization dedicated to "improving the character of the American people" by promoting the practice of eugenics, or selective breeding.

John Tanton, is a major architect of the contemporary nativist movement who was already warning of a destructive "Latin onslaught" heading to the United States about 20 years ago.

Wonk Room » Architect Of Arizona Immigration Law Kris Kobach: ‘Reasonable Suspicion’ Factors Are ‘Common Sense’

The Arizona Republic has posted a video of lawyer and chief architect of Arizona’s likely unconstitutional immigration law, Kris Kobach, instructing Maricopa County (Arizona) officers on what constitutes “reasonable suspicion” that someone is unlawfully present in the country — one of the most controversial elements of Arizona’s new immigration law SB-1070. According to Kobach, the criteria he recommends are “common sense.

When listing the factors that police officers should consider to determine whether a person they come in contact with is undocumented, Kobach vaguely notes that law enforcement must take into consideration the “totality of circumstances.” According to Kobach, “one factor is not enough.” From there, he simply advises officers to just “rely on more than one.”

Some of the factors Kobach lists, such as an individual taking flight or passengers attempting to hide, certainly do raise suspicion that some sort of unlawful activity is taking place. However, most of the criterion — even when combined — add up to a set of relatively common circumstances that could lead to a series of unreasonable stops, and in the case of SB-1070, wrongful arrests and detentions. Those factors are:

The individual has no English skills or speaks English poorly and does not comprehend English instructions.

Indications from dress or appearance of the person that he is an illegal alien.

The appearance of the individual is unusual or out of place in a particular locale.

The individual appears to be in transit or traveled a significant distance.

Indications that the passengers and/or the vehicle have been on a long trip.

The vehicle is overcrowded or riding heavily.

Evasive maneuvers taken by the driver of a vehicle, such as abruptly exiting from the highway.

The individual has no identification on his person.

Watch the video:

Justice Department threatens a lawsuit as states follow Arizona's cue

By Ishita, Restore Fairness Blog, May 11, 2010

Last week we gave you a list of states that are going to great lengths to oppose Arizona’s anti-immigrant legislation and ensure that immigration enforcement remains in the Federal domain. Today, unfortunately, we have very different news. While human rights advocates, musicians, sports people, police officers and media personalities continue to provide us with endless reasons why Arizona’s harsh SB1070 bill needs to be repealed, lawmakers in Minnesota, Pennsylvania and Colorado have already introduced similar bills in their state legislatures. Not to be left behind, similar legislation is being considered in Oklahoma, South Carolina, Idaho, Utah, Missouri, Texas, North Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and Colorado.

Encouraged by the passage of Arizona’s immigration law, legislators and political candidates in these states are stating their frustration at the Federal government’s inaction in tackling immigration as their reason for introducing bills that increase local immigration enforcement. Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, a Republican who introduced legislation modeled on the Arizona law last week said that his bill would leave undocumented immigrants with two options, “leave immediately or go to jail.” He said-

Rachel Maddow 'fact checks' FAIR's Dan Stein's 'pack of lies'. Exposure of FAIR's White Supremacist racist roots.

Dan Stein, President of FAIR (Federation of American Immigration Reform), is exposed of his lies and attempts to dissociate himself from Protect Arizona Now (PAN) by Rachel Maddow. It is important to note that Kris Kobach, a lawyer for FAIR, was the principle architect for Arizona SB 1070...FAIR is designated as a nativist hate group with close ties to white supremacist organizations by the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The Far-Right Movement Behind Arizona Copycat Bills

By Seth Freed Wessler (Colorlines News Magazine)

May 4, 2010 Ed. note: Scroll down for a map of states debating copycat bills

The growing number of immigration-enforcement bills in state legislatures around the country are not merely following Arizona's lead. Rather, the bills—which legislators have discussed or introduced in at least 11 states—are the fruits of a concerted political strategy seeded by the far-right group Federation for American Immigration Reform, which has taken money from a eugenics foundation and was created by a man who warned of a “Latin onslaught.”

In a majority of the states where legislation has been proposed or discussed, the leading lawmakers behind the bills are associated with FAIR’s legislative arm, a group called State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI) that operates in at least 35 states. FAIR was founded over 30 years ago by John Tanton, who is widely credited with spurring the contemporary anti-immigrant movement. Over the past three decades Tanton has expanded FAIR’s reach by cultivating a network of associated organizations, each of which plays a distinct role in the anti-immigrant movement’s infrastructure.

State lawmakers pushing a new crop of immigration-enforcement bills are overwhelmingly affiliated with a network tied to eugenics and anti-Latino fear-mongering.

SB 1070's Russell Pearce at Tempe Tea Party and who is behind this law

SB 1070's Russell Pearce tells a distasteful joke at the Tempe Tea Party, The Hate Group FAIR (Federation for American Immigration Reform) admits to writing SB 1070 and Pearces neo-Nazi ties are exposed.

Source: Youtube.com Humanleague002 video page