Election 2008: What’s At Stake?

News 21 readers are by now familiar with Kris Kobach, the one-man army against illegal immigration. Kobach, who has litigated everything from Hazleton, Pa.’s defense of its immigration ordinance to a suit against San Francisco’s sanctuary law, is also fighting Kansas over a law that lets illegal immigrants who have attended state high schools to [...]

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Immigration is a fraught issue, and in recent years dozens of groups have sprung up to advocate for one position or the other, to lobby Congress, to fund candidates, or to fight it out in the courts. With all the vague or patriotic-sounding names, it can get pretty confusing. You might see spokespeople from these [...]

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Until recently, Richmond, Ca., leaders, including Mayor Gayle McLaughlin, were considering a program to provide illegal immigrants with municipal identification cards. But the Contra Costa County Municipal ID Task Force decided to shelve the proposal, after San Francisco backed down from its plan amid controversy.
San Francisco has lately been under fire for its lax attitude [...]

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