Arpaio had pulled himself away from terrorizing the Latino neighborhoods of Maricopa County long enough to fly into to Kansas to endorse Kris Kobach, who is running for Kansas Secretary of State on a platform of fear. Kobach, you see, who is an attorney with FAIR, takes credit for co-authoring Arizona’s notorious “Show Me Your Papers” S.B. 1070 which effectively codifies the notion that the darker person’s skin tone, the more likely it is they are illegal.
So today Kansas City was ground zero for the restrictionist’s message—billed as a fundraiser for Kobach and dubbed “The Illegal Means Illegal Rally”. My mission? To make sure that that Kobach-Arpaio message of fear and xenophobia was met with the truth: that immigration is good for America, economically, socially, and, above all, morally.
Read his entire post here.
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