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    Alaska GOP Candidates Clash on Immigration

    Alaska GOP Candidates Clash on Immigration

    ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Aug 11, 2014, 3:56 AM ET
    By NICHOLAS RICCARDI and BECKY BOHRER Associated Press



    Thousands of miles from the U.S-Mexico border, three Republicans vying for their party's nomination for U.S. Senate in Alaska clashed on immigration Sunday night in a televised debate ahead of the Aug. 19 primary.


    Both former Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan and Lt. Gov Mead Treadwell refused to sign a pledge offered by tea party favorite Joe Miller to oppose all efforts at "amnesty" for people here illegally if elected to the U.S. Senate, with Treadwell chastising Miller for sending out a mailer on immigration featuring menacing Hispanic gang members. Miller, in turn, noted that several of Sullivan's backers, like GOP strategist Karl Rove, favor allowing many of the 11 million immigrants in the country to eventually become citizens.


    "It's because it's the truth," Miller said when challenged about the pictures on the flier. "This is real-world stuff."


    Miller, an attorney who won the 2010 Republican Senate nomination but lost to Sen. Lisa Murkowski when she bested him in a general election write-in campaign, has been increasingly emphasizing immigration as he tries to break out of what most observers believe is third place in the heated primary fight.

    He has been highlighting his support from Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a well-known immigration hardliner.


    Miller was also the only one of the three candidates who refused to commit to endorsing the winner of the Republican primary. That will continue to stoke speculation that he could run on a third-party ticket should he lose the primary, which could effectively hand the November election to incumbent Democrat Sen. Mark Begich.


    The candidates also clashed over the economic stimulus, gun rights and campaign spending. Sullivan has raised almost four times as much money as Treadwell and has a super PAC backing him, enabling him to bombard the airwaves with advertising. Begich and his super PAC have also jumped into the fight, attacking Sullivan over his roughly seven-year absence from the state, when he was in Washington, D.C., working in the administration of President George W. Bush and serving with the military overseas.


    Republicans need to net six Senate seats to win control of the chamber in November. Sullivan stressed the need for the GOP to regain power in Washington, focusing, as befits his presumed front-runner status, on Begich rather than his primary foes.


    "Our country is fundamentally going in the wrong direction," said Sullivan, who is also a lieutenant colonel in the Marine Reserves. "The best way to change this is to beat Mark Begich and retire Harry Reid."


    Treadwell stressed his 40 years in Alaska and said Sullivan didn't have enough experience to win in November. "Dollars don't vote here in Alaska, people do," he said in a dig at Sullivan's financial backers, "and I ask you to remember that we can't be bought."


    Sullivan chided Treadwell for sitting on the board of a company that sold equipment to the federal government for stimulus projects. Treadwell responded that there was nothing wrong with the business selling to the federal government and noted that the paint-supply company run by Sullivan's family also received contracts under the stimulus.


    Miller, meanwhile, had a tone of bemusement, saying that Treadwell had adopted so many of his positions from his failed 2010 bid that he wondered if the lieutenant governor would show up with a beard, a reference to Miller's facial hair. He noted he was the only non-millionaire in the race and boasted of building his own house in the Alaskan interior and feeding his family with the fish he caught in the state's rich waters.


    On immigration, all three candidates bashed the Obama administration for failing to secure the border. Treadwell said he supported letting some people here illegally stay once they pay a fine and wait for permits behind those who immigrated legally. Sullivan called for more border security.

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    Immigration Reform Update: Alaska Republican Senate Candidate Defends Comparing Immig

    Immigration Reform Update: Alaska Republican Senate Candidate Defends Comparing Immigrants to Hispanic Gang Members

    August 11, 2014
    By Michael Oleaga
    Latin Post

    The immigration crisis has become an issue for U.S. states thousands of miles away from the southern border. In Alaska, three Republicans vying for the state's GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate debated immigration.

    Former Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan and Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell commented on their refusal to sign a pledge set forth by fellow candidate Joe Miller, who has garnered support from the tea party. The pledge by Miller would reaffirm opposition to any efforts to grant amnesty to undocumented immigrants if any of the three GOP candidates were elected to the U.S. Senate.

    Lt. Gov. Treadwell criticized Miller for distributing a mailer addressing the immigration crisis with "menacing" Hispanic gang members, according to The Associated Press.

    "It's because it's the truth," Miller said, adding that the flier featuring Hispanic gang members is "real world stuff." He also countered that Sullivan's supporters favor amnesty for up to 11 million undocumented immigrants.

    Miller previously ran for and won the state's GOP senate nomination in 2010 but lost to Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-AK, when she reentered the race as a write-in candidate.

    According to Public Policy Polling (PPP), the Alaskan Republican primary is close, but Sullivan has a 6 point lead over Treadwell, 35 to 29. Miller is in third place with 20 percent.

    PPP also noted Miller has a high unfavorable rating compared to his fellow candidates -- 47 percent -- and 38 percent leaning favorable. Treadwell and Sullivan's favorability ratings stood at 58 percent and 57 percent, respectively; Treadwell and Sullivan's unfavorable ratings were 20 percent and 25 percent, respectively.

    While Alaska is nowhere near the southern U.S. border, the Department of Health and Human Services Administration for Children and Families reported that a small number of undocumented immigrant children have been transported to the state. According to HHS' Office of Refugee Resettlement, five undocumented minors have been released in Alaska to sponsors, who are typically a parent or relative of the minor, while the child's immigration case is processed.

    While five undocumented minors were sent to Alaska, the number is small in comparison to other states such as California's 3,150, Florida's 3,181, New York's 3,347 and Texas' 4,280. In total, between Jan. 1 and July 7, HHS released 30,340 undocumented minors to a sponsor.

    According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, 57,525 undocumented immigrant children under the age of 18 and traveling without a parent or guardian were apprehended between Oct. 1, 2013, and June 30, 2014. For 2015, the White House said up to 150,000 undocumented children will enter the U.S.

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