Posted on 10/25/2014 9:24:37 PM PDT by ObamahatesPACoal
In September, Travis Childers, Mississippi's Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate, completed a survey about immigration. Childers' stance has consistently been anti-immigration, so his opposing amnesty for "dreamers," young people whose parents brought them into this country without authorization when they were too young to object, is no surprise.
#What angers Democrats is the questionnaire's source: The Federation for American Immigration Reform, known as FAIR. The questions are: 1. Will you oppose or support legislation that would grant any form of work authorization to illegal aliens? 2. Will you oppose or support legislation that would increase the overall number of immigrants (legal permanent residents/green card holders) admitted each year to the U.S.? 3. Will you oppose or support legislation that would increase the overall number of guest workers admitted each year to the U.S.?
#Childers opposed each one, and FAIR is crowing about its first Democratic "pledge signer." Despite its name, FAIR has no interest in immigration "reform"; it seeks "to end illegal immigration through enforcement of existing immigration laws as well as the application of new technology" and "to set legal immigration at the lowest feasible levels consistent with the national security, economic, demographic, environmental and socio-cultural interests of the present and future."
(Excerpt) Read more at jacksonfreepress.com ...
Childers probably could won except for stuff like this. The fix is in for Cochran.
is this an op ed or a news story cause the headline is really biased.
Childers may win by opposing amnsety. Conservatives called racists by Cochran may just vote for Childers.
“to set legal immigration at the lowest feasible levels consistent with the national security, economic, demographic, environmental and socio-cultural interests of the present and future.”
Sounds great to me. Why does Ronni Mott object to that?
Ping.
It degenerates into this conspiracy about FAIR’s origins.
We are talking about Cochran and others losing narrowly with conservatives staying home. That’s what happened to the last Republican Senator from Michigan in 2000.
“John Tanton, who founded FAIR in 1997 and still sits on its board of directors, has compared immigrants to bacteria. In an ad opposing Sen. Spencer Abraham, R-Mich., whose ancestry is Lebanese, FAIR “suggested that the senator’s position would cause Americans to be ‘... exposed to the threat of terrorism from criminals like Osama bin Laden.’” (that was in 2000) and after the terrorists overstaying visas in the 1990s during the first bombings.
#Beginning in the late 2000s, FAIR became increasingly “active in pushing anti-immigrant laws at the state and local level,” reports the SPLC. “Attorney Kris Kobach, who works for FAIR’s legal arm, the Immigration Reform Law Institute, helped to write Arizona Senate Bill 1070.”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_election_in_Michigan,_2000
“ By September 4, Abraham still had failed to reach 50% in polls despite having spent over $6 million on television ads.”
Democratic Debbie Stabenow 2,061,952 -49.47%
Republican Spencer Abraham (Incumbent) 1,994,693 -47.86%
A bunch of good guys on that list, except for Romney.
The thing is not like any of these candidates are getting millions in PAC money from FAIR or NumbersUSA. They don’t have the money and NumbersUSA runs direct ads bashing Paul Ryan and Mark Begich. Not giving any money to any direct candidate. NumbersUSA probably knows how to run political ads unlike the average political consultant who gets the hands on the money.
Ronni Mott. Maybe Cochran has a new girlfriend.
Both FAIR and Numbers USA are striving valiantly to educate Americans on our out-of-control mass immigration disaster. More power to ‘em. I notice one of this writers’ main “sources” is the SPLC, a far-left organization which smears any group which opposes their far-left agenda.
I guess “reform” in the view of the Left can only equal amnesty and open borders - and not reform as FAIR means it - i.e. reforming our laws to reduce third world immigration and to slow the USA’s destruction.
> FAIR has no interest in immigration “reform”; it seeks “to end illegal immigration through enforcement of existing immigration laws as well as the application of new technology” and “to set legal immigration at the lowest feasible levels consistent with the national security, economic, demographic, environmental and socio-cultural interests of the present and future.”
This may get outside left-wing interests cranked up against him, but it’s probably a big plus for his campaign.
Mississippi ping
Only the fear of not wining the senate keeps me from voting for Karl ... I mean Travis.
Still considering whether to write in McDaniel or vote Childers. Cochran has ads saying how Republicans need to stick together to elect Republicans - might as well be spitting on us who got betrayed by him and his backers.
Me, too! It's really heavy on my mind. Although a write-in of Chris McDaniel would be a wasted vote (because it would not count, since he's not a write-in candidate), I find it almost impossible to think I could vote for a commie Democrat, even one paying lip service to a sane stance on illegal immigration. Even though writing in Chris would be a waste of my vote, I may do it anyway. Cochran ran a criminal snake's campaign.
Being opposed to illegal immigration should be a selling point.
He seems to want the conservative vote, to sign such a thing so opposed to his own party’s platform. I don’t even know what to make of party designation anymore, at least in states like MS. It’s as if they just choose whichever side at that point in time which will best propel them to office, at the start of their careers, and otherwise doesn’t mean much. Cochran was a rat at one time.
Still another week to let it fester in my mind - my birthday is Monday, 3 Nov and my present to myself would be to see Cochran either go down hard or squeak by with so small an advantage that the clarion call rings so loud that even those who betray us (while insisting on playing fair with the enemy) must sit up and hear.
Childers had my vote after the runoff shenanigans. Barbour and his knew they could get away with it when they tried it, I mean who won’t to keep Dingy Harry out? Well if my one vote against the establishment tilts the balance of RINO power the wave never happened elsewhere
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