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Kris Kobach - One of the Council's Attorneys for the Immigration Litagation

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Hate Group Lawyer Drafted Arizona�s Anti-Immigrant Law

Arizona's controversial anti-immigrant law was written by a lawyer at the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) ^[1], which the Southern Poverty Law Center has listed as an anti-immigrant hate group since 2007. The law, a recipe for racial profiling, would make the failure to carry immigration documents a crime and give the police broad power to detain anyone suspected of being in the country illegally. (See statement by SPLC Legal Director Mary Bauer ^[2].)

Kris Kobach ^[3], the author of the Arizona law ^[4] and a lawyer at FAIR's Immigration Reform Law Institute, has been the prime mover behind numerous ordinances that seek to punish those who aid and abet “illegal aliens,” including laws adopted in Farmer's Branch, Texas, and Hazelton, Pa.

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Kris Kobach, Architect Of Arizona Immigration Law SB1070, Is Behind Other Controversial Laws  JOHN HANNA | 05/10/10 04:41 PM |

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Below are 2 editorials from the Albertville, Alabama Sand Mountain Reporter about Kris Kobach, who is the Johnnie Appleseed of lobbying city councils across the country to take up the immigration fight - and hire him to do it.  Former Farmers Branch City Councilwoman, Carol Dingman, saw the first editorial and contacted Ben Shurett, the editor.  The second editorial is a summary of her conversations with Mr. Shurett.   Ultimately, the City Council in Albertville, Alabama decided to pass on Kobach's legal services.