Conservatives jumped and screamed with Joy yesterday when a right-wing federal judge Sharon Blackburn — upheld most of the provisions of the racist, racial profiling immigration law in Alabama. The law, which, among other things, makes it illegal to knowingly give an undocumented immigrant a ride, also requires schools to check students’ immigration status.

Alabama’s H.B. 56, is draconian, worse than those already passed by Apartheid Arizona, Georgia and Indiana. There are also provisions making it a crime for an undocumented immigrant to apply for or perform work, making it a crime to conceal or harbor an undocumented immigrant, and barring employers from failing to hire a U.S. citizen while employing an undocumented worker.

As explained in the video below, the law “drips with racism.”

Apartheid: Alabama Joins The League of Immigrant ‘Racial Profiling’ Republican States

PLAYLIST: Apartheid Republican States in The U.S.

Fox Nation Screamed: “Holder Loses: Court Upholds Alabama Immigration Law,” while the hoodlums at WorldNet Daily exulted — STUPIDLY comparing opponents of the law to Civil War-era slave owners who opposed emancipation. [ READ MORE ] | WND’s Vox Day likened “Mass Invasion” Of U.S. By “Mexicans And Others” To Nazi Invasion Of Europe.

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Fox’s Megyn Kelly: Judge’s Ruling On Alabama Immigration Law “Is A Victory” For AL

No, Eric Bolling: “Apprehensions Dropping Dramatically” Doesn’t Mean Immigrants Are “Getting Here” And “Staying Here“

GOP Debate Puts National Spotlight On Fox’s Use Of “Illegals” Slur [ READ MORE ]

Reference: HB 56 & Anti-Immigrant Hate: ‘Apartheid’ Republicans Slide Alabama Back into ‘Jim Crow’ Terrorism

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It was just a matter of time. I saw it coming.

Fox, the totally biased, race-baiting channel, the dung-pit of bigots preaching loudly to a thoroughly racist and delusional Tea-Party America — finally snared the mother of all xenophobes, anti-Obama “birther,” Lou Dobbs — recently fired from CNN for reckless, extortionist anti-immigrant hate.

The Minister of ‘Propaganda and Enlightenment‘ — is back on TV!

Media Matters For America Reports: Dobbs left CNN after repeatedly embarrassing the network by dabbling in absurd conspiracy theories about President Obama’s birth certificate. Dobbs also caused friction at the network due to his years-long, falsehood ridden crusade against illegal immigration. So, Dobbs is heading to Fox, where they apparently aren’t bothered by such things. (He has already been popping up on Fox News in recent months to misinform their viewers about immigration.) [ READ MORE ]

For the record, this anti-immigrant, racist buffoon — is “happily” married to a Mexican! I wrote about it here.

Lou Dobbs – The King of Xenophobia (Playlist)

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   By: Adele M. Stan
If the latest Rasmussen survey of likely voters is to be believed, in the Colorado governor’s race, anti-immigrant gadfly Tom Tancredo is polling within four points of the frontrunner, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, a Democrat. The Rasmussen poll shows Hickenlooper at 42 percent, Tancredo at 38 percent and Republican Dan Maes at just 12 percent.

When Tancredo jumped into the Colorado gubernatorial race, most political analysts simply rolled their eyes. After all, this was the guy who, at the Tea Party Nation convention in Memphis earlier this year, advocated a return to literacy tests for voter registration, a practice that was used and abused for decades in the South to keep African-Americans from the voting booth. And this was the guy who called Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor “a racist” who should be “disqualified” from serving on the bench, and a member of “a Latino KKK.” The most Tancredo could hope for, the thinking went, was to be a spoiler by splitting the right-wing vote between himself and Maes, the Tea Party-backed candidate who won the G.O.P. nomination in an upset.

If you think his rhetoric is scary, consider this:

To make his third-party bid, Tancredo signed on with the American Constitution Party, which despite its secular-sounding name, is a party based upon the principles of Christian Reconstructionism, whose adherents seek to have biblical law — including the execution of LGBT people and the stoning of adulterers — instituted as the law of the land. (Both Rand Paul and Sharron Angle have links to the Constitution Party, as we reported here.)

Pat Buchanan, when he threatened to bolt the Republican Party in 1996 after winning the New Hampshire presidential primary and a nice slice of delegate pie in other states, openly flirted with the party Tancredo now finds himself in. (Back in Buchanan’s political heyday, it was known as the U.S. Taxpayers Party.) Tancredo has long been allied with Buchanan, who supported Tancredo’s presidential bid for the G.O.P. nomination in 2008. As she did for her brother in 1996, Bay Buchanan served as Tancredo’s presidential campaign manager.

Even as he surges on the Constitution Party ballot, Tancredo now seems to be seeking some distance from the party’s extremist platform, which calls for an end to public education and all public “welfare” programs — including Medicare and Social Security — and the banning of abortion, even in cases of rape or incest. The platform’s wording of its plank on HIV/AIDS prevention suggests that gay sex is “perverted.” “My joining the American Constitution Party this year is a marriage of convenience not of love,” Tancredo told the Colorado Independent. “This is not some [philosophical] metamorphosis. I needed to get on the ballot and the [American Constitution Party] needed to draw votes.” (Don’t you feel better already?)

The Rasmussen poll shows 59 percent of Republican voters backing Tancredo.

Other recent polls show a much larger gap between Tancredo and Hickenlooper, but all show the Constitution Party candidate gaining on the Democrat. The most recent Denver Post/Survey USA poll shows Hickenlooper with a 12-point lead, but that poll was taken more than two weeks ago, on September 29. Rasmussen is sometimes dismissed by observers for being too weighted in Republicans’ favor, but in races that fail to follow predicted courses, Rasmussen is sometimes more on top of on-the-ground sentiment among G.O.P. voters, especially late in a race. A Fordham University report (PDF) ranked Rasmussen first in accuracy in for its final poll of the 2008 presidential election — ahead of Pew and Harris, and far ahead of Gallup (ranked 17th). Rasmussen also accurately polled the 2004 presidential race.

Ugly Hatred: Twisted Colorado ‘Republican‘ Group Calls Obama ‘Angel of Death‘

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RACHEL MADDOW, MSNBC HOST: An exclusive report about politics and retaliation, and a politician who was supposed to be a rising star in the Republican Party, apparently running on fear — fear of exposure.

It starts with the issue of illegal immigration. As you can tell by the sheer volume of anti-immigrant politicking in the country right now, the illegal immigration problem must really be exploding. That is true if by exploding you mean that it is down 67 percent.

The Pew Hispanic Center, which is widely considered to be the most authoritative source of numbers on this subject, they have release a new report saying that in the past decade, the number of illegal immigrants crossing into the United States has dropped by two-thirds.

So, the sudden uptick in yelling about illegal immigration, blaming immigrants for everything from Obama being elected to swine flu to kidnapping the Lindbergh baby, that is not happening because illegal immigration is getting worse. It is actually getting better.

The uptick in anti-immigration stuff is not really about immigration at all. It is about what makes good politics for anti-immigration politicians. And bits what make big profits, apparently, for some very well connected people. [ READ MORE ]

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July 22, 2010: KPHO investigates ties between the Brewer administration and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA) – and how the governor’s rhetoric on border security may be damaging Arizona’s tourism industry for the benefit of CCA.

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Arizona’s new immigration law which is slated to take effect on July 29, to give ‘Racism a Place To Hide‘ — has been gutted. Judge Susan Bolton granted an injunction halting the enforcement of key provisions of the Arizona immigration enforcement law — ruling in favor of the U.S. Justice Department.

Today’s ruling came after the judge heard arguments from the U.S. Department of Justice, the ACLU and co., last week. In her ruling, Judge Bolton recognized that the law would lead to the “intrusion of police presence into the lives of legally-present aliens (and even United States citizens), who will necessarily be swept up by [its requirements].”

But today, let’s make it clear that the unconstitutional “show me your papers” law does not belong in Arizona, or anywhere else racist Republicans try to promote racial profiling. Sign the ACLU’s petition to all governors: HERE.

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From The National Council of La Raza:

Washington, DC — Calling it an “unequivocal victory for Latinos and an important first step to repealing SB 1070,” Janet Murguia, President and CEO of NCLR (National Council of La Raza), applauded today’s decision to block sections of Arizona’s controversial immigration law from taking effect. U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton ruled that the law will still take effect Thursday but will not include sections that would have required officers to verify a person’s immigration status and compelled immigrants to carry their documents at all times.

“Not only did the judge side with the Latino community, she sided with the Constitution. This is an unequivocal victory. The ruling enjoins the crux of the law that would have legitimized racial profiling,” said Murguia.

“But the work is not done. We know that the injunction is temporary and likely to be appealed and that the suspended sections can still be reinstated. The Arizona legislature has also signaled that it will move forward with even more draconian measures, and other states are still considering similar legislation,” added Murguia.

NCLR, the largest national Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, is among leading civil rights, labor, and faith organizations that have organized to boycott Arizona. The boycott and a call to Major League Baseball (MLB) Commissioner Bud Selig to move the 2011 MLB All-Star Game from Arizona will remain in effect until the law is permanently repealed, overturned by the courts, or superseded by federal comprehensive immigration reform legislation.

“We cannot focus on false solutions. Today’s ruling makes clear that the power to pass effective comprehensive immigration reform lies with the president and Congress. If the two senators from Arizona would step up, then we could deliver the solution that Arizona and the nation need,” Murguia continued. “The effects of this law have already spread to other states that believe they can tackle the problem, but solutions must be made at the federal level, and Washington needs to act.”

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