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    Group: GOP mailer likens immigrants to 'disease'

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    Group: GOP mailer likens immigrants to 'disease'

    August 31, 2006
    BY SCOTT FORNEK Political Reporter

    A pro-immigrant group Wednesday called on Republican congressional hopeful Peter Roskam "to publicly denounce and repudiate" a GOP mailer that the group charges treats immigrants as "some type of disease."

    The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights dispatched a letter to Roskam criticizing the independent mailings sent out by the National Republican Congressional Committee in the west suburban 6th Congressional District.

    "These mailings attack your Democratic opponent, Tammy Duckworth -- but more importantly they also attack immigrants and are extremely misleading," the letter reads.

    The GOP pieces accuse Duckworth of supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants.

    "The last thing we need from Congress are immigration policies that would reward illegal aliens for sneaking across our borders -- and the plan Duckworth supports will only encourage another wave of immigrants," the GOP mailer states.

    It's that last phrase that the coalition leaders wrote that reads "as if immigrants were some type of disease." They also argue that Duckworth opposes amnesty.

    Duckworth spokeswoman Christine Glunz said that instead she supports a Senate bill that provides "a path to citizenship" to illegal immigrants who pass criminal background checks, pay taxes owed, learn English, take American culture courses and are "gainfully employed."

    NRCC spokesman Carl Forti stood by the mailing, saying that "articles from every major newspaper in the country" equate the bill's "pathway to citizenship" with amnesty.

    'Out of touch'

    "They are trying to play politics by mischaracterizing what the mail piece actually says," Forti said.

    Roskam campaign manager Ryan McLaughlin declined to repudiate the mailer, saying it's an NRCC effort.

    But he said "the fact that Tammy Duckworth supports legislation that would grant amnesty to illegal aliens, require the United States to consult with Mexico before constructing a border, guarantee Social Security benefits for illegal aliens and cost taxpayers $126 billion shows how out of touch she is with suburban voters."

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    arn't illegals a diease?

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    They are bringing the "disease" of drugs, social dependency, anarchism, communism, crimes against women and children and overall lawlessness to our country. In other words, they are turning our country into The Mexico of the North.
    They say they want to come for a better life but they bring all of their social prejudices, diseases and the leftist expectation that the "state" should take care of them.
    If they want a better life, why not emulate the people that have one instead of trying to cling to and repeat the reasons they left their own countries.
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    But you notice that they conveniently left out the word ILLEGAL?
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    Quote Originally Posted by dragons5
    arn't illegals a diease?
    Good morning all,

    Actually I see this situation more as a parasitic problem. They always destroy the host causing their own self destruction.

    Trouble

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    You don't like it, go back to where you came from you bunch of crybabies.
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    "The last thing we need from Congress are immigration policies that would reward illegal aliens for sneaking across our borders -- and the plan Duckworth supports will only encourage another wave of immigrants," the GOP mailer states.
    Though he is absolutely correct, he really should have used the term "illegal aliens" instead of "immigrants" in that second reference.

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    More like a swam of never-ending Locust
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    More like a swam of never-ending Locust

    yeah, the noisy, annoying kind!
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