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Greg Orman misleads on immigration using cookie cutter talking points - 09/28/14
[UPDATE: Orman supports the 2013 Senate amnesty bill, see below]
Greg Orman is the independent candidate for Senate from Kansas. His thoughts on immigration are completely unoriginal and just as deceptive.
Phillip Brownlee /Wichita Eagle supports depriving U.S. citizens of college educations, encourages giving in to corruption - 12/24/08
Phillip Brownlee, opinion editor of the Wichita Eagle says:
The new year apparently will bring another quixotic attempt to repeal the law allowing some qualifying children of illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition at state universities and colleges. Rep. Lance Kinzer..., R-Olathe, and some other conservative lawmakers plan to take another charge at the 2004 law next session despite the fact that past efforts to repeal it have failed. Or that costly court challenges to the law have failed. Or that Gov. Kathleen Sebelius would veto any repeal that happened to make it out of the Legislature...
Crooked Towns: Brent Wistrom/Wichita Eagle on Liberal, Kansas - 09/02/07
Next in our series of "Crooked Towns Stories" is "Hispanic influx gives Liberal, Kan., a new face" by Brent Wistrom of the Wichita Eagle:
"Brownback Scrubs Website of Earlier Immigration Vote" - 06/28/07
From this:
Eleven minutes after voting in favor of cloture on the Senate immigration bill, Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback changed his mind—and his vote—to oppose cloture, MSNBC reported earlier today [1]. Now it seems that the Brownback campaign has changed its mind again, this time on a press release it produced just days ago. On Tuesday, June 26, the campaign released a statement after Brownback voted in favor of cloture. The statement originally appeared here [2]. It's now gone, but was cached and can be seen [2017 note: cached page also gone].
ACORN Workers Indicted For Alleged Voter Fraud - 11/03/06
[[KMBC]]/[[November 1, 2006]]/ link
Reports that four "registration recruiters" working for ACORN were indicted in Kansas City, charged with voter fraud. Says that ACORN claims to have processed more than 35,000 voter registration applications in Kansas City since the summer, and ACORN says they turned in the workers and is quoted as "welcoming" the arrests. The workers have been fired.
ACLU claims U.S. violating human rights obligations (OAS) - 11/02/06
The American Civil Liberties Association - which has at least one indirect link to the Mexican government - together with the National Employment Law Project and the Transnational Legal Clinic at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law [1] (run by Sarah Paoletti [2]) have filed [3] a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (part of the Organization of American States):
...to find the United States in violation of its universal human rights obligations by failing to protect millions of undocumented workers from exploitation and discrimination in the workplace.
The...
AVWatch: Annotating Villaraigosa's speech - 06/02/05
L.A.'s mayor-elect Antonio Villaraigosa appeared at the "Take Back America" event (for "progressives", not necessarily reconquistas). Here are his remarks, annotated with few randomly chosen links: