MoveOn demands Grimes take down ‘offensive’ immigration ad

The Hill ^ | Ben Kamisar

[ObamahatesPACoal]

The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is demanding that Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes take down an ad that uses the term “illegal aliens.”

“This latest TV ad from Alison Lundergan Grimes is deeply upsetting. Grimes seems to be forgetting that we are a nation of immigrants that has continually strived to honor all the hard-working people who aspire to the American Dream,” Ilya Sheyman, MoveOn.org’s executive director, said in a statement.

“It’s deeply troubling that Grimes would stoop this low in order to try to defeat [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell, and she needs to take this offensive advertisement off the air immediately.”

Grimes’s ad accuses her Republican opponent, McConnell, of voting to provide “amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits to three million illegal aliens, the largest legalization program in U.S. history,” citing a Washington Post article.

Grimes appears at the end of the ad to approve the message and says, “I’ve never supported amnesty or benefits for illegal immigrants, and I never will.”

[Timber Rattler]

Under the bus you go Grimes...this and pulling Rat funding must be payback for denying Obama to Chuck Todd.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Amazing, she’s trying to run to McConnell’s right on the illegal invasion.

[Iron Munro]

You know your campaign is down the toilet when you have managed to get MoveOn.org to assist your republican opponent.

[urbanpovertylawcenter]

The conservative organization, Urban Poverty Law Center, demands Grimes keep the add and place “illegally-legal alien” in place of illegal alien to be more grammatically correct.

[BCW]

MoveOn.org continually forgets that we are a nation of laws - and illegal means just that!

Call it for what it it - they are worried people will not vote Democrat in NOV...the only thing they are concerned with...

[fortheDeclaration]

What part of the word ‘illegal’ don’t these people understand?

[9YearLurker]

Really, how hard is that to do?

[tomkat]

We're rapidly approaching the end of 'that awkward time'.

[ZULU]

They are ILLEGAL ALIENS!!!!

Illegal as they don’t belong here.

And Alien as in foreign.

[sickoflibs]

RE:”The liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is demanding that Democratic Kentucky Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes take down an ad that uses the term “illegal aliens.
.....Grimes’s ad accuses her Republican opponent, McConnell, of voting to provide “amnesty and taxpayer-funded benefits to three million illegal aliens, the largest legalization program in U.S. history,” citing a Washington Post article.
Grimes appears at the end of the ad to approve the message and says, “I’ve never supported amnesty or benefits for illegal immigrants, and I never will.”

Pretty bad when your Dem opponent calls you out on amnesty.

[Organic Panic]

Illegal disease infested invaders works good for me.

[G Larry]

Hey MoveOn!

We are a nation of LEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!!

There is an established LEGAL process for immigrating to America.

The Millions who have migrated here outside of that process are here ILLEGALLY!!!!!

It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL immigrants and minorities by flooding the labor market with cheap labor, here ILLEGALLY!!!

And WE are ALL OFFENDED!!!

[Chode]

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

[yldstrk]

Hey. Illegals. You leave. You don’t get to pick and choose which laws you follow. There is no exception for being born somewhere you wish you hadn’t. Deal with it.

[TangoLimaSierra]

And still no mention of the thousands who have waited months or years to immigrate here legally.

[Liz]

Not to worry----all will be well just as soon as US taxpayers line the pockets of corrupt Central American regimes. Read on:

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) 10/15/14 - The United States should provide billions of dollars to help Central American nations curb the flow of illegal migrants, Guatemalan President Otto Perez said, and his government warns the problem will get worse if Washington fails to help.

"The United States has to support this, it has no other option," Guatemala's foreign minister, Carlos Morales, told Reuters. "If they don't support it, the crisis will kick off again, you can count on it."

Fleeing violence, trying to reach relatives already in the United States or seeking jobs, record numbers of child migrants from Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador have been stopped at the southern U.S. border this year, causing widespread alarm.

Last month, the three countries pitched Washington an ambitious development plan to confront the issue. They want to pump about $10 billion into the region to create jobs and lift living standards, with the bulk of funding coming from the United States, Perez told Reuters.

He hopes the plan could come up with about $2 billion a year from 2015 to 2019, a sum he equated to roughly 10 percent of annual U.S. spending on border security and immigration enforcement. The package would boost infrastructure and provide more jobs in all three countries, especially in areas that send large numbers of migrants to the United States, he added. ####

[dead]

"The United States has to support this, it has no other option,"

There always the machine gun turrets on the border option.

[upchuck]

Some quotes and comments from the article:

"Many immigration reform activists say the term “illegal aliens” is offensive, urging the use of “undocumented” instead."

They'd prolly get really upset with my fav definition of these people: criminal aliens. They are criminals because it is against the law to break into our country and they are aliens because they have no right to be here.

"Grimes appears at the end of the ad to approve the message and says, 'I’ve never supported amnesty or benefits for illegal immigrants, and I never will.'" ... "Grimes said she supports the bipartisan immigration bill that passed the Senate in 2013."

Well, c'mon Allison, which is it? Ya can't have it both ways.

Too bad the turtle is gonna be reelected. Hopefully he'll man up to run the Republican controlled Senate. But I doubt it. Turtles don't usually change their stripes.

[Tennessee Nana]

LOL