Mitt Romney’s Long Embrace Of Kris Kobach
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Mitt Romney’s 2012 presidential campaign appears to be struggling with what exactly to do with Romney’s endorsement from Kris Kobach, the current Kansas Secretary of State and the controversial architect behind some of the recent past’s most incendiary immigration laws.
But four years ago, the campaign gave Kobach an important role: illegal immigration policy adviser.
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Kobach was already a controversial figure in the immigration movement when Romney singed him on as policy adviser in 2008. Even before the Romney endorsement, the Southern Poverty Law Center had designated the Federation for American Immigration Reform (whose legal arm Kobach served as general counsel) a hate group.
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