Immigration Hard-Liner Kris Kobach Added to Trump Team

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Kris Kobach, the worst of the immigration hard-liners, just joined Pres. Trump’s transition team. Kobach was the author of Arizona’s “Show Me Your Papers” law and anti-immigrant laws in a dozen other states. All of them were thrown out by the courts as unconstitutional. Now he will help guide the new administration’s immigration policies.

Kobach claims credit for Trump’s demand that Mexico pay for a wall along the border. Kobach said recently that “There’s no question the wall is going to get built.”

Kobach’s previous legislation included a law requiring landlords to check the immigration documents of renters. Landlords who rented to undocumented immigrants could be prosecuted. Another law cut off municipal services, like water, to undocumented immigrants. Still another barred undocumented immigrants from marrying.

 

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Patrick Young blogs daily for Long Island Wins. He is the Downstate Advocacy Director of the New York Immigration Coalition and Special Professor of Immigration Law at Hofstra School of Law. He served as the Director of Legal Services and Program at Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) for three decades before retiring in 2019. Pat is also a student of immigration history and the author of The Immigrants' Civil War.

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