OPINION: Raul Labrador’s reelection campaign misfires on immigration, again
Idaho's Attorney General told us on March 31 that he was going to school the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue of birthright citizenship. Even before the 13 colonies gave birth to the United States, we have regarded all children born on American soil to be citizens. Even the rightward-leaning Supreme Court did not buy Labrador's frivolous argument. It was a crushing loss, but we heard nothing from him about it, nor have we learned how much he spent on his wild goose chase.
Labrador is at it again with a July 23 Facebook post celebrating the 43,000 arrests made by ICE in June. He proclaimed that "every one of those arrests is a win for the person who’s been waiting their turn in line to immigrate legally.” That is not necessarily true, because ICE has notoriously been arresting people who are citizens or otherwise legally present in the United States.
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