I think, on closer examination, Jeb Bush would be the worst of all candidates to run. For one thing, we don’t need another Bush. That would be embarrassing to the Republican Party. He’s more pro amnesty for illegals than his brother was, more than Rick Perry was.

– Republican color commentator Ann Coulter, announcing she hates Jeb Bush and apparently wasn’t too fond of his big brother either. Could have fooled us.

$11.2 Billion

Amount paid in state and local taxes in 2010 by undocumented residents and their families. That included $1.2 billion in personal income taxes, $1.6 billion in property taxes and $8.4 billion in sales taxes.

I think that if not this election cycle, the demographics are that Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, even Texas will all be in play.

— Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), quoted by NBC News, adding, “We have to fix our problems with the Hispanics.”

It’s hard not to think of this picture, which on Facebook is associated with the #OccupyWallStreet movement, when you hear the Republican candidates (except, she grudgingly admits, Rick Perry) debate immigration policy.
America hasn’t wanted your huddled masses yearning to breathe free for a long time, and we SURE don’t want your poor.
But we used [...]

From the right-leaning San Diego Union-Tribune:
The overall undocumented population in this country last year was 11.2 million, down from its peak of about 12 million in 2007, the Hispanic Pew Center said. Mexicans accounted for 58 percent of that group, or about 6.5 million from a high of 7 million in 2007.
The annual inbound [...]

This list was started on Twitter, by Peter Daou:
As I’ve said, the right’s target list speaks volumes: unions, scientists, academics, public broadcasters, health providers, women.
We can think of a few more.

Gay people, especially those in long-term, loving relationships who want to marry and/or adopt children
Veterans, once they’ve been injured, maimed, or traumatized in defense of [...]

In a unanimous decision, a jury in Tucson handed down the death sentence yesterday for right-wing anti-immigrant vigilante Shawna Forde — founder of Minuteman American Defense, an offshoot of the national Minuteman movement — who was found guilty last week in the double murder of Brisenia Flores, age nine, and her father, Raul, 29. (See [...]

The newest ad from U.S. Senate candidate from Nevada, Sharron Angle, is the Willie Horton story of our day. Anyone who could watch this piece of work and not get the fear-mongering it employs should watch it again. But just in case you still don’t get it, Mi Blog es tu Blog’s Laura Martinez breaks [...]

If “birthright” citizens, as anti-immigrant Republicans and tea baggers call them, are declared illegal, how far back will we go? Will I, and other descendants of illegals, become retroactive non-citizens?
My mother’s father came to this country illegally from Italy in the World War I era wave that brought most of the people who later produced [...]

ast week, Arizona GOP Gov. Jan Brewer, the main promoter of the state’s infamous new anti-immigrant law, was caught in a lie when she claimed that her state’s deserts were littered with the corpses of victims of blood-thirsty illegal immigrants. The bodies, she said, were “either buried or just lying there that have been beheaded.” [...]