Has Arizona denied the accusations of their immigration law SB1070 being drafted by a hate group lawyer?
Could this be the reason why Americans consider this law (SB1070) racist? Has Arizona denied these allegations? (Sources please)
http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/04/28/hate-group-lawyer-drafted-arizona-anti-immigrant-law/
Hate Group Lawyer Drafted Arizona’s Anti-Immigrant Law
Arizona’s controversial anti-immigrant law was written by a lawyer at the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), which the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed as an anti-immigrant hate group since 2007. The law, a recipe for racial profiling, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. (See statement by SPLC Legal Director Mary Bauer.)
Kris Kobach, the author of the Arizona law and a lawyer at FAIR’s Immigration Reform Law Institute, has been the prime mover behind numerous ordinances that seek to punish those who aid and abet “illegal aliens,” including laws adopted in Farmer’s Branch, Texas, and Hazelton, Pa.
FAIR has been dominated for much of its life by its racist founder and current board member, John Tanton, who has written that “for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.” Tanton’s role model for FAIR is John Trevor Sr., founder of the racist American Coalition of Patriotic Societies and a key architect of the racially restrictive Immigration Act of 1924.
@ mikegolf, I’ve seen people discredit SPLC, but those same people never give a source, like you just failed to. This is an accusation, so have they denied it?
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July 8th, 2010 at 9:12 am
He was actually hired to draft the bill because of his ties to racist groups.