Roskam Asked To Condemn Anti-Immigrant Letter (Immigrants As "Disease")

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http://cbs2chicago.com/topstories/local_story_243070220.html

Roskam Asked To Condemn Anti-Immigrant Letter
Group Says Letter Treats Immigrants As "Disease"

(STNG) CHICAGO 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.

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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.

[MasonJar]

1. Tammy Duskworth spoke to Emily's List in May and she is awe-

some. A disabled female Iraq veteran!

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2. Duskworth is very impressive. Of course the RNC is attacking her

with this nonsense.

[Gidney N Cloyd]

4. What do you find impressive? I'm definitely voting for her and I'll

probably donate but somehow my engine's just not revving.

[civildisoBDence]

3. Since DUHbya invoked fascism...

didn't the Nazis compare Jews to vermin?

News and commentary, left to right

[DRoseDARs]

5. I think the native peoples of the Americas would agree... that whites are.

Or, at the very least, disease-carrying vectors like mosquitoes or rats. Anyway, that's pretty much all our colonial ancestors brought them. Funny how conservatives fail to see any irony in their own words. :shrug:

[madrchsod]

6. the 6th would come to a halt

if the "immigrants" didn`t show up for work one day...i`m talking about-all immigrants-not just those south of the border