Right-Wing Media Attack Possible Labor Nominee by Demonizing Immigrant Rights’ Group CASA
Right-wing media are furthering attacks on possible Labor secretary nominee Thomas Perez by demonizing an immigrants’ rights organization he was involved with. But CASA is a respected Latino advocacy organization whose work helping immigrants has won a multitude of awards for outstanding community service.
The Associated Press reported on March 9 that President Obama is likely to nominate Perez, the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, to serve as the next Labor secretary. His possible nomination has set off a series of attacks from right-wing media, including Fox News, which has accused him of working with “hardcore Islamist groups” and tried to discredit him by invoking the manufactured scandal over the Justice Department’s New Black Panthers intimidation case.
In a syndicated column peppered with slurs such as “illegal alien,” Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin attacked Perez by smearing CASA, the organization where Perez served first as a volunteer then as board president in 2002, as a “notorious illegal-alien advocacy group
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