Mitt Romney’s top immigration aide was attacked for appearing with a white nationalist at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week, but he did nothing to try to win over Latinos during his presentation. Kris Kobach touted his influence with Romney and blamed high unemployment on undocumented immigrants. According to The Hill Kobach...
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Anti-immigrant leader Peter Brimelow attracted national attention when he spoke at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) last week. Brimelow is a white supremacist who told a reporter from CBS News that “diversity is weakening American Identity”. According to CBS News’ political blog Hotsheet: During the panel discussion, Brimelow and other panelists said immigration...
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Peter Brimelow, who authored a best-selling anti-immigrant book in the 1990s, gained wide attention as the white supremacist speaker at this week’s CPAC convention. Brimelow is a truly odd bird. An Anglo-Canadian immigrant who wants to keep non-white immigrants out to protect “our culture”, Brimelow runs a web site called VDARE, named after Virginia...
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The Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) attracted condemnation yesterday for featuring a speaker from the white supremacist web site VDARE. Peter Brimelow, who edits the site, spoke out against immigrants and non-white people generally at the conference. Brimelow’s site has published garbage like the following: “America was defined — almost explicitly, sometimes very explicitly...
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Kris Kobach, Mitt Romney’s top immigration advisor, will appear on a panel with a White Nationalist leader at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Friday. Robert Vandervoort, who’ll share the stage with Kobach, helped put out the American Renaissance journal devoted to the preservation of the white race. The Romney campaign seems dedicated...
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Xenophobia continued to draw cheers as the CPAC conference wound down today. Keynote speaker Allen West went after both immigrants and American Muslims today in his closing address. In fact West decried the persecution of his former chief of staff who resigned after calling for the hanging of undocumented immigrants. Politico says that anti-Muslim...
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The annual conservative CPAC confab continued to mine anti-immigrant xenophobia heading into its wrap-up today. Tom Tancredo, the national spokesman for a a host of organizations, spoke about the danger of immigrants at the conference on Friday. Afterward he was interviewed by Mother Jones magazine when he warned that Muslim immigrants are planning on...
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The New Republic reports on the immigration panel at the national conservative convention CPAC going on in DC this week: Birth certificates, naturally, were a big topic of discussion today at the immigration policy panel at CPAC—the conference run by the American Conservative Union where College Republicans flock from all corners to co-ruminate with...
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South Florida freshman Congressman Allen West has been selected as CPAC Keynote speaker. CPAC is the leading annual gathering of conservatives. Allen West attracted national attention last year when his chief of staff said that undocumented immigrants should be executed and their bodies sent back to their home country to discourage further illegal immigration....
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