Posted on 11/11/2016 3:56:08 AM PST by Helicondelta
One of the architects of several of the nation's most controversial immigration laws is set to join President-elect Donald Trump's immigration policy transition team.
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Thursday that he planned to help Trump reverse President Obama's immigration policies.
"There's going to be a lot to do there in part because Mr. Trump and Mr. Obama are diametric opposites when it comes to immigration policy, so there will be a lot of changes," Kobach told a Kansas television station.
Noting Trump's central campaign pledge to build a southern border wall and emboldened by Republicans' retaining control of Congress, Kobach said, "There's no question the wall is going to get built. The only question is how quickly will it get done and who pays for it."
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In 2010, Kobach helped to craft Arizona's SB-1070, which contained four major elements aimed at reducing the number of immigrants in the state illegally through attrition. It compelled police to ask for papers and allowed officers to make arrests without warrants if they believed the suspect committed an offense that made them eligible for deportation.
Critics assailed SB-1070 as racial profiling, and the Supreme Court struck down much of the law in 2012, although it upheld the part allowing police to check immigration statuses. In September, Arizona ended its practice of requiring police officers to demand the papers of people suspected of being in the country illegally as part of a settlement with immigrant rights groups.
Kobach also has had a hand in other controversial immigration laws. He helped write an Alabama measure in 2011 that mandates that police who suspect someone is in the country illegally can work to determine that person's legal status. Critics have called it tougher than the Arizona law.
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It just keeps getting better and better.
Good.
If Trump gets Kobach and Brownback out of Kansas then there are a lot of people there who would be cheering him.
Excellent. The press assigning labels? What label did they give Van Jones? Oh yeah, that’s right. They didn’t.
Let's go back to Wilson and upset the entire apple cart.
He is picking people who chose him before it was politically expedient to do so. These people of,character will not back stab him
What’s your problem with Kris Kobach?
He engaged in sensible anti-illegal immigration policies in Kansas and was attacked at his home by La Raza terrorists for it.
You on their side?
Great news. Kris is one of the giants in our immigration movement. He is one of the smartest guys I have ever met.
Just a neutral observer from the next state. I know Brownback isn’t very popular and Kobach had his voter registration law struck down.
Anybody that has anything to do with Trump immigration is not going to be very popular with the left anyway, tough and thick skinned is what is needed....
FROM THE LIBTARD PRIMER
“Hardliner” - One who advocates enforcing the law
The man told us - we are going to win so much that our heads will spin and we’ll get tired of winning! Loving it so far.
Brownback is unpopular with the socialists in the state. Koback is upopular with the illegal invaders lovers.
I’m west of KC - in Leavenworth County (not THAT house!).
He is kinda with the butting heads with then UN and NATO.
This is awesome news!
Now is the time for not only a wall, but stepping up efforts at forcing these people to self-deport...Go after ANYONE in government who breaks the law by providing “sanctuary”....High profile arrests of a couple of mayors would do the trick.
Great news! I’m probably not the first to say it but THE LIBERAL BUBBLE HAS BURST !!!!!!!!!
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