Group With Racist Ties Urges Lou Dobbs to Run for President

By GottaLaff

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[...] Dobbs has a group that espouses "hysterical fear-mongering and xenophobic, anti-Latino conspiracy theories" encouraging him to run for president.

The Web site for the Raleigh N.C.-based Americans for Legal Immigration Political Action Committee (ALIPAC) says they support "those who legally immigrate, but we DO NOT support any amnesty, visa expansion or 'Guest Worker' program designed to reward illegal aliens or legalize their presence in the U.S."

But the Center for New Community's Building Democracy Initiative, whose mission is "to counter emerging threats to civil and human rights," produced a report on ALIPAC in 2005 finding that the group's approach "is to criminalize and demonize immigrants, withhold public services and pretend that immigrants, regardless of their documentation, make no contributions to our society." [...]

As if supporting Lou Dobbs for president weren't enough proof of a disconnection with reality, the Anti-Defamation League reports that ALIPAC associates with and is promoted by white supremacists.

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