Posted on 12/26/2007 8:19:33 PM PST by stan_sipple
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Immigrant-rights groups are criticizing the organizers of an upcoming radio event that will promote a crackdown on illegal immigration.
The groups accuse the Federation for American Immigration Reform of endorsing bigotry and racism. FAIR is sponsoring a broadcast marathon for Thursday and Friday in a downtown Des Moines hotel. The event is expected to attract 22 radio talk show hosts from across the country to discuss immigration.
``We don't agree with their views that are demonizing immigrants, and we don't appreciate their coming to Iowa telling us what we should think about immigrants,'' said Alicia Claypool, chairwoman of the Iowa Civil Rights Commission.
Dan Stein, president of FAIR, said his group is being demonized. ``They're trying to discredit an entire side of the debate,'' Stein said.
FAIR held a similar radio event last spring in Washington that it claims influenced the U.S. Senate's defeat of a bill that would have created a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants.
FAIR placed an advertisement last week in The Des Moines Register taking note of the defeated legislation and promoting the upcoming marathon. ``Earlier this year, talk radio shook things up in Washington and helped stop an amnesty for illegal aliens,'' the ad stated.
Critics have said FAIR's hard anti-immigrant line has discouraged a fair debate. They note that the Southern Poverty Law Center, a civil rights organization, recently added FAIR to its list of hate groups operating in the United States.
Stein said the law center's report contains ``serious fabrications. ... It's absolutely defamatory.''
FAIR's Web site — www.fairus.org — says the group advocates for improved border security, an end to illegal immigration, and immigration levels ``consistent with more traditional rates of about 300,000 a year.''
The Center for New Community, a Chicago-based immigrant rights advocacy group, disagrees with FAIR's purpose and encourages the hotel to cancel the event. The Rev. David Ostendorf, the center's executive director, said hotels and other places ``have no obligation to provide a platform for hate speech.''
Stein accused critics of the planned broadcasts of trying to obstruct free speech ``and people's right to be heard on public policy issues.''
With the real nature of "Hate Crimes" (ie, who is attacking whom) no longer to its liking, the SPLC has found a new cash cow in "immigrants rights".
We must stand strong against the ‘say anything negative, even if true and you will be labeled a racist’ mentalities.
Illegal aliens are not immigrants. Hence, the so called term “immigrant rights” is unmitigated PC bull.
As regards “advocacy” organizations, those lobbying for illegals in this manner don’t rank much above groups like NAMBLA as far as I am concerned.
No more "immigrant-rights groups", than organizations formed to lobby for decriminalization of drunk driving would be "drivers-rights groups".
I am SICK of it. The Lib MSM KNOWS they are liars and persist on it.
True, but the real term is "Poverty Pimps".
Illegal migrant workers.
It is like having a mouthpiece for organized crime. People who offer the services that the public can’t get elsewhere...
Yeah. Right. Just what we need. Drug smugglers and rapists becoming American citizens. I think there should be a path for people like this to go straight to he!!.
LOVE your new tagline!!!!!!
No one was allowed to disagree with Mao or Joseph Stalin either ma'am, but this is still America, and if you don’t like that fact, then I suggest that you move to Cuba.
I had to fix the title.
So, it’s okay for ILLEGALS to march in the streets demanding ‘right’s’ but LEGAL citizens are supposed to SHUT UP!
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Claypool, Alicia
Des Moines, IA 50312
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa/Executi BOSWELL, LEONARD L. (D)
House (IA 03)
BOSWELL FOR CONGRESS $500
primary 06/08/04
Claypool, Alicia
Des Moines, IA 50312
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa/Executi BOSWELL, LEONARD L. (D)
House (IA 03)
BOSWELL FOR CONGRESS $250
general 10/13/02
Claypool, Alicia
Des Moines, IA 50312
Interfaith Alliance of Iowa/Executi BOSWELL, LEONARD L. (D)
House (IA 03)
BOSWELL FOR CONGRESS $250
primary 04/18/00
CLAYPOOL, ALICIA
DES MOINES, IA 50312
INTERFAITH ALLIANCE
IOWA DEMOCRATIC PARTY (D) $600
primary 03/25/99
CLAYPOOL, ALICIA
DES MOINES, IA 50312
YWCA HARKIN, THOMAS RICHARD (D)
Senate - IA
CITIZENS FOR HARKIN $250
primary 02/26/96
CLAYPOOL, ALICIA
DES MOINES, IA 50312
GRANTS WRITING CONSULTA BAXTER, ELAINE B (D)
House (IA 03)
ELAINE BAXTER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE $250
general 09/30/94
CLAYPOOL, ALICIA
DES MOINES, IA 50312
FUNDRAISING CONSULT HARKIN, THOMAS RICHARD (D)
Senate - IA
CITIZENS FOR HARKIN $400
primary 09/28/92
CLAYPOOL, ALICIA
DES MOINES, IA 50312
HOUSEWIFE BAXTER, ELAINE B (D)
House (IA 03)
ELAINE BAXTER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE $250
primary 05/01/92
CLAYPOOL, ALICIA
DES MOINES, IA 50312
GRANTS WRITING CONSULTA BAXTER, ELAINE B (D)
House (IA 03)
ELAINE BAXTER FOR CONGRESS COMMITTEE $250
primary 12/15/91
Ah, yes! Mr. Dees' little money machine.
I have told both my senators and my congressman that they should challenge every person, every time, they call illegal aliens undocumented workers, undocumented immigrants, or any other PC weasel term. Notice how well they listen?
summer of 1973
Iowa Women’s Political Caucus (IWPC). The group stated its goal, “...to awaken, organize and assert the vast political power represented by women, who constitute a majority of voters. To reach out to every woman across the state, to assure her of first class citizenship and full and equal participation in the political process.”
IWPC elected Alicia Claypool, Chair at the Annual Convention
1982
Alicia Claypool resigned as Chair so she could return to school.
www.iowasenatedemocrats.org
Alicia Claypool with the Iowa Civil Liberties Union
Photo at link above:
Supporters of the “Safe Schools Initiative” attended a bill signing ceremony at Valley High School on Monday. Those who advocate against bullying complimented Senators Mike Connolly of Dubuque and Matt McCoy of Des Moines for making Iowa schools safer for all children. From left, Brad Clark, Alicia Claypool with the Iowa Civil Liberties Union, Jessica Brackett, Ryan Roemerman, director of the Iowa Pride Network, Senator McCoy, Senator Connolly, and Rich Eychaner. (3/5/07, Credit: Soheila Yalpani)
Alicia Claypool - reported on the Commission’s Subcommittee on Sexual Orientation. Stated Maria Waterman and she were drafting a resolution in support of Sexual Orientation to be discussed at the next meeting. Stated the Des Moines City Council had approved by a vote of five to two to add Sexual Orientation as a protected class. Attended a group called El Forro which is a group of Hispanics and Hispanic supporters working on issues of . She also announced Latino Affairs was sponsoring a Latino Festival on September 15h in Des Moines and had been asked to speak at a local group regarding civil rights.
These people are not immigrants; they are criminals. They have no business talking about immigrant rights.
Dan Stein is the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization in the United States that advocates for reforms of U.S. immigration policies that would result in significant immigration reduction. He is also a member of the Citizens’ Debate Commission, a nonpartisan American organization, formed in 2004, that was established to sponsor future general election presidential debates.[1]
Stein started leading FAIR in 1988, as its executive director. Before that, he was the executive director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a non-profit public interest law firm working to control illegal immigration and reduce legal immigration to “levels consistent with the national interest of the United States”
“The Rev. David Ostendorf, the center’s executive director”
Tax Em !
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