Good lookin', too.
Posted on 01/31/2011 6:19:10 AM PST by La Lydia
Frustrated by the federal stalemate on illegal immigration, cities and states have spent the last few years crafting their own curbs on unlawful residency... Lawmakers have worked aggressively as well in Nebraska, Texas, Missouri, Pennsylvania, and Idaho, among other states, punishing schools that educate undocumented immigrants, landlords who rent to them, and businesses that hire them. What unites these measures is...their ties to one man: Kris Kobach, a Kansas-raised former law professor who has emerged as the intellectual architect of the right’s fight against illegal immigration. The 44-year-old has authored, aided, or officially defended almost every controversial stance in the country, beginning with his work as chief immigration adviser in John Ashcroft’s Justice Department.
This year may be Kobach’s most influential yet. From a base in Kansas, where he is the newly seated secretary of state, Kobach will help Arizona defend his laws...He’ll also counsel a dozen or so states that are considering copycat laws and a coordinated assault on birthright citizenship. And he’ll litigate at least four ongoing immigration-related cases...It’s a “legal jihad,” according to a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which calls the path he’s blazing “a trail of tears.”
Kobach’s contagious ideas and all-American good looks have made him a fixture on Fox News. But he’s no wingnut. His path to public life is so pedigreed it makes John Kerry seem rough-hewn. Kobach earned top undergrad honors at Harvard; won a Marshall scholarship to Oxford, where he picked up a political-science doctorate; got a law degree from Yale, where he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal; and did missionary work in Africa. He even won two Masters national rowing titles in the men’s double scull....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
Theyre putting a crosshairs on this guy, for the millions who don’t know him. Thats how the MFM works.
It’s “controversial” if the liberals don’t like it.
Oh, heck yeah!
Yes, he is. Of course Newsweek used a picture that makes him look vaguely menacing.
In the absence of congressional action, Kobach is after what he says is the best alternative: “People often see federal immigration policy as a dichotomy between amnesty and deportation. But the most rational approach is a third one: you ratchet up the enforcement so that people make their own decisions to start following the law.” In other words, take away the reasons people come to America illegally—education, work, housing, and, yes, citizenship for their kids—and, Kobach says, they will “self-deport.”
That's so clear, concise and logical that even the libtards should be able to understand.
libtards are purposely obtuse.
Ping!
To them the US Constitution is ‘controversial’.
It sure is.
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