Bigotry’s High Tide Mark (far right anti-immigrant fringe in full retreat)
Today’s version among the far right anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican lunatic fringe that has controlled the immigration issue for several years is just the opposite of Marshall Foch.
They are in full retreat, not because they have lost their CHUTZPAH or have run out of lies, but reality and common sense have overtaken them in the legislative halls, in public opinion and in courage of Republicans who refuse to bow to cowardly immigration restrictionists.
The national restrictionist cabal is led politically by the Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and its myriad affiliated front groups like the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA and intellectually by their supplicant publication “The Social Quarterly” and a web site of author Peter Brimelow’s, Vdare.com, named for the first white child born in Virginia circa 1607.
Nonetheless, the Tanton/FAIR groups and their paid lawyer, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (of ALEC infamy) are busy on many fronts trying to pass laws that attack people who may be in the country illegally, especially if they are Mexican. Towns in Pennsylvania, Texas, Nebraska and the states of Arizona, Alabama, South Carolina and Georgia have all passed Kobach-written laws that are attacks on Spanish-speaking immigrants even if they are legal.
The question, then, has the anti-immigrant, anti-illegal-immigrant; anti-Mexican provocateur of the Tanton-type hit the high tide mark of the movement? Its corollary question is: is it receding in the face of court injunctions and opposition based on the Constitution and common sense?
And, where do we place the credit for this triumph: The Courts? The people…Common sense…The Constitution?
How about, all of the above?
http://tucsoncitizen.com/arizona-lincoln-republican/2012/04/11/bigotrys-high-tide-mark/
I'm not sure that the "far right anti-immigrant, anti-Mexican lunatic fringe" is in "full retreat" but they are certainly at a minimum pausing to consolidate their gains. I suspect that the upcoming campaign will feature more of the same from the teabagger fringe.
