New SPLC Report: Nativist Laws Cost Communities Millions, Inflame Racial Tension | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center

28.1.11

New SPLC Report: Nativist Laws Cost Communities Millions, Inflame Racial Tension | Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center: "Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center released a new report, “When Mr. Kobach Comes to Town: Nativist Laws & the Communities They Damage.” The report analyzes the disastrous aftermath for communities that have enacted local ordinances aimed at punishing undocumented immigrants. Last year, the first statewide version of these laws was passed in Arizona. Several other states and communities are also considering such legislation.

The report examines the role of Kris Kobach, the lawyer most responsible for these ordinances. For the better part of the past six years, Kobach has been chief legal counsel to the Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal arm of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The SPLC lists FAIR as a hate group because of its promotion of white nationalism and its longstanding ties to prominent white supremacists."