More GOP Fallout: Chair Michael Steele “Not Comfortable” With Paul’s Civil Rights Stance On This Week, Republican Party Chair Michael Steele put some distance between himself and Kentucky’s GOP’ Senate candidate Rand Paul. Anchor Jake Tapper asked Steele, “Are you comfortable with” Paul’s views? “I’m not comfortable with a lot of things,” Steele said. “It sounds like you’re not comfortable with it,” Tapper said. “I just said I wasn’t comfortable with it,” Steele replied. “I think it’s important to understand that Rand Paul has clarified his statement and reiterated his support for…pushing civil rights forward, as opposed to going backwards,” Steele said on This Week. And on Fox News Sunday, Steele said, “I believe … his philosophy is misplaced in these times.

Communities Condemn Obama Administration for Militarization of Border « The Speed of Dreams By Derechos Humanos. This first appeared on Censored News. TUCSON – The Coalición de Derechos Humanos along with groups across the country, condemn Tuesday’s announcement that the Obama Administration will send 1,200 National Guard troops to Arizona and will request an additional $500 million to “secure” the Mexican border. The decision by Obama to “up the ante” on the militarization scheme of over 16 years, not only follows his administration’s record of continued attacks on immigrant families across the nation since he became President but his own DHS 800 ICE agent military-style assault on the communities in Arizona on April 15, 2010. Last year, President Obama also sent more than 700 new federal agents to the border, at that time responding to cries of non-existent “spill-over violence,” feeding the continued growth of the militarization and of the anti-immigrant sentiment. The decision to send military troops into civilian communities is also extremely dangerous. Like this:

Wonk Room » Associated Press Debunks The ‘Birth Tourism’ Myth Earlier this summer, when Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) suggested that he may try to amend the Constitution to deny the American-born children of undocumented immigrants citizenship, he argued that “[p]eople come here to have babies. They come here to drop a child. However, the Associated Press reports that, though it exists, the trend is “not as dramatic as some immigration opponents have claimed”: Out of 340,000 babies born to illegal immigrants in the United States in 2008, 85 percent of the parents had been in the country for more than a year, and more than half for at least five years, Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer for Pew, told The Associated Press.And immigration experts say it’s extraordinarily rare for immigrants to come to the U.S. just so they can have babies and get citizenship. Watch ABC’s segment on “birth tourism”: The Associated Press concedes that, “some pregnant Mexican women do come to the United States.

Georgia Lawmaker Defends ‘Shoot To Kill’ Solution To Immigration: ‘They’re Invading Us’ By Andrea Nill Sanchez on October 18, 2010 at 2:07 pm "Georgia Lawmaker Defends ‘Shoot To Kill’ Solution To Immigration: ‘They’re Invading Us’" In an interview with Atlanta’s Fox5, Yates stood by his comments: Some have questioned Yates’ comments. Watch Fox5′s report: However, people are very upset about Yates’ remarks, particularly the Anti-Defamation League (ADL).