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Friday, February 10th, 2012

Posts Tagged illegal aliens

Colbert mocks Alabama immigration law for torpedoing agricultural industry

By | 10.28.11 | 10:52 am

Mock cable news conservative Stephen Colbert this week skewered Alabama lawmakers who passed the state’s toughest-in-the-nation anti-illegal immigration legislation this year. Alabama’s “papers please” law endorsed in Colorado by immigration crusader Tom Tancredo came amid a wave of similar proposals floated last spring by Republican state lawmakers around the country, including here in Colorado. The law has led to a mass exodus of Latinos in Alabama, which has left the agricultural industry shorthanded and thousands of acres of produce unpicked and rotting during harvest season.

Arizona legislature bans ethnic studies programs

By | 04.30.10 | 2:00 pm

A week after passing a state immigration law that has drawn wide criticism that it is a racist law or at least will promote anti-American racial profiling, the Arizona legislature has banned state public schools from offering ethnic studies…

Tancredo supports new Ariz. immigration law but mostly as a lever

By | 04.26.10 | 10:30 am

Coloradans and national politics watchers generally will not be surprised that former Colorado Congressman and anti-illegal immigration champion Tom Tancredo celebrated the new broad and controversial powers Arizona has adopted to root out illegal aliens. Tancredo told Fox News…

Here They Come: Tea Parties Against ‘Amnesty’

By | 10.28.09 | 10:55 am

The immigration restrictionist group Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC) said it’s flooding Twitter, Facebook and MySpace, and planning another round of Tea Parties, to motivate what they hope will be a huge backlash against any attempt to…

Radio host Boyles ‘spends hours’ studying health bill, gets it all wrong

By | 09.11.09 | 7:15 am

On Thursday’s radio show, KHOW’s right-wing host Peter Boyles claimed that the Democratic health reform bill, H.R. 3200, contains Orwellian euphemisms. He said that, contrary to Pres. Obama’s statements to a joint session of Congress last night, the bill finances…