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This post, written by Pachacutec, originally appeared on FireDogLake
The open war on brown people in America is about to kick into high gear. Unsurprisingly, Mr. self styled "Big Thinker," Newt Gingrich, breaks the news:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Tuesday he is "sickened" that President Bush and Congress went on vacation "while young Americans in our cities are massacred" by illegal immigrants.
Gingrich, who is considering a run for the White House, was referring to a recent crime in Newark, N.J., where three college students were murdered execution style in a school playground.
One of the suspects -- Jose Lachira Carranza -- is an illegal immigrant from Peru who was on bail on charges of raping a child when the murders occurred.
Gingrich said another suspect is an illegal immigrant from Nicaragua with a long record of arrests who was ordered deported in 1993 but never left.
However, The (Newark) Star Ledger reported Tuesday that the man -- Rodolfo Godinez -- obtained permanent legal residency in 2001.
The Newark Police Department did not return requests for comment.
Gingrich said that the "war here at home" against illegal immigrants is "even more deadly than the war in Iraq and Afghanistan."
Let the pogroms begin good times roll! Maybe this will be part of Newt's grand strategy to campaign on withdrawal from Iraq: bring the troops home to fight the insurgent immigrant menace at home. The rationalizations will no doubt be entertaining from the wingnut base, MalKKKin's place and LGF as they attempt justify such Dhimmitude when anihilation at the hands of the Islamofascist horde has been their raison d'etre for six years now. Perhaps we'll see a fracture in that fragile alliance between the hawkish Israel faction and those whose commitment to fighting global jihad is slightly less keen than their desire to keep from soiling their beautiful minds with the sound of espanol at the local Circuit City.
This is the well-focus grouped kickoff to Newt's presidential bid, it seems. He has an email signup to go along with this, building out his lists no doubt with an eye to launching a fundraising warchest.
But Newt's not alone. In the wake of the White House's announcement last Friday that they will cooperate with larger efforts to rally the bigoted GOP base and ramp up the regulatory assault on immigrants, Mitt Romney is obviously reading the same tea leaves and trying to hang the brown menace around Giuliani's neck:
Mitt Romney accuses former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani of making his city a haven for illegal immigrants. Giuliani denies it, insisting he cracked down on lawlessness of every kind.
It's the first real clash between two leading Republican candidates who are vulnerable on immigration, a volatile issue that infuriates Republican conservatives who hold sway over primary elections.
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Romney, inspecting border fencing and checkpoints Monday in San Diego, reiterated his plan to hire more Border Patrol agents, sanction employers who hire illegal immigrants and cut federal dollars for sanctuary cities.
Romney blames "don't tell" policies, and Giuliani's support for them, for luring millions of illegal immigrants to the United States.
Meanwhile Rudy is fighting his own race war, arguing for a tamperproof ID card that includes fingerprinting for everyone entering the country, in addition to a central database to track their exits.
Maybe something like this, I guess. (Though La Neta suggests a replica tortilla so we can know who the Mexicans are.)
To the surprise of no one with a functional attention span (which of course excludes any of our Very Serious Political Pundits), the decades-old pancake makeup covering the hateful racist core of the GOP has flaked so hard it's falling right off, and we're about to witness quite the Klan rally for the soul of the Republican Party heading into 2008.
Jackboots de rigeur.
Tagged as: race, immigration, xenophobia, gingrich, republican party, giuliani, romney
"Pachacutec" is a New York Mets fan, a businessperson, a progressive writer and a collector of classic jazz recordings who can usually be found online at FireDogLake
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Independent Exit Pollsters in Swing States Seek Volunteers An independent effort led by noted academics is planning exit polls in Ohio, Missouri and Pennsylvania to verify the official vote count. Post by Steven Freeman. October 7, 2008. |
Those Trying to Blame Immigrants for Wall Street's Failures are Wrong Motives behind "Blame the Immigrants" game exposed, anti-Latino sentiment underscores extremists' approach. Post by Staff. October 6, 2008. |
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