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Sunday, July 30, 2006

Radnofsky condemns Klan rally in Amarillo



Barbara Radnofsky (photo)
Texas Senatorial Candidate

Statement of U.S. Senate Democratic Nominee Barbara Ann Radnofsky:

The Ku Klux Klan has announced its intention to rally on immigration issues on August 5 in Amarillo at City Hall. I condemn the Klan's message and history of hate and violence and terrorism.

I condemn the Klan's application of its hateful activities in the context of immigration reform and its planned rally in Amarillo, a fine city with concerns including water and drought, with inadequate federal relief due to wasteful government spending and misplaced priorities.

I call on my opponent to also denounce the Klan. I oppose the latest impossible immigration proposal by my opponent, the fourth in a series of expensive, unworkable proposals by our senior senator, who has voted against each of the Senate compromise immigration solutions.

The "self deportation" immigration plan proposed by my opponent this past week relies on major waste of our tax dollars and an impossibility of human nature: She hopes people will self deport, return for years of stay in their home country, subjected like cattle to tagging and waiting an eternity for the U.S. President to certify, after spending billions and billions of our tax dollars, that the U.S. borders are "secure" so the immigrants might then return.

The Hutchison plan, which has no chance of passage, also seeks to privatize our immigration and security in a vastly expensive and unworkable series of private centers built at U.S. government expense by private corporations in foreign lands. They will require massive U.S. funded security.

It's a hugely expensive process which will waste our taxpayer dollars even more than the waste we've seen to date, while creating ill will and easy targets in foreign lands.

The solution: economic improvement on both sides of the border and a comprehensive strategy encouraging fair trade, a workable registration system which includes an arduous path to citizenship, and integrated homeland security with U.S. personnel running our sea ports, strengthening post-graduate requirements at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy to include port service obligations.

A video press release on this issue is now posted at www.radnofskyvideo.com.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

So does this mean that Radnofsky is going to condemn Robert Byrd too?