"With access to Homeland Security and Census records, Kobach could give deportation lists and 'non-citizen' Census files to GOP state voting officials. They could then require Americans with names like 'José Garcia' to prove they are citizens. In 2012, Florida did a test run of this purge operation, identifying some 181,000 'potential' aliens on their voter rolls. They found and convicted just one (an Austrian registered as a Republican), but scared untold numbers of Hispanics away from voting. Many lost their registration because they could not take a day to go to court to prove they are Americans. And that’s the real danger in this 'Immigration Czar' appointment: Kobach could organize the purge of young voters and voters of color by the hundreds of thousands just before the 2020 election."
Wednesday, April 3, 2019
Kobach to be immigration czar
Dump and Repugs know that the only way they can win is to eliminate legitimate voters.
"With access to Homeland Security and Census records, Kobach could give deportation lists and 'non-citizen' Census files to GOP state voting officials. They could then require Americans with names like 'José Garcia' to prove they are citizens. In 2012, Florida did a test run of this purge operation, identifying some 181,000 'potential' aliens on their voter rolls. They found and convicted just one (an Austrian registered as a Republican), but scared untold numbers of Hispanics away from voting. Many lost their registration because they could not take a day to go to court to prove they are Americans. And that’s the real danger in this 'Immigration Czar' appointment: Kobach could organize the purge of young voters and voters of color by the hundreds of thousands just before the 2020 election."
"With access to Homeland Security and Census records, Kobach could give deportation lists and 'non-citizen' Census files to GOP state voting officials. They could then require Americans with names like 'José Garcia' to prove they are citizens. In 2012, Florida did a test run of this purge operation, identifying some 181,000 'potential' aliens on their voter rolls. They found and convicted just one (an Austrian registered as a Republican), but scared untold numbers of Hispanics away from voting. Many lost their registration because they could not take a day to go to court to prove they are Americans. And that’s the real danger in this 'Immigration Czar' appointment: Kobach could organize the purge of young voters and voters of color by the hundreds of thousands just before the 2020 election."
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