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The Southern Poverty Law Center labeled the Arizona-based Alliance Defending Freedom hate group in 2016 likened homosexuality to pedophilia and argued favor of sterilizing transgender people.. ..

make a federal case out of it

Indiana measure was the target of lawsuit filed in 2011 by American Civil Liberties Union. The legislation goes further than Arizona law, which would allow police to arrest illegal immigrants only if they had committed offense. ..

a bad week for the gop on immigration

Seib cites Tancredo’s crude conspiracy theories, as when he says of John McCain that had he won the White House, he and Mexican President Felipe Calderon “would be toasting the elimination of those pesky things called borders and major steps taken toward creation of a North American Union.” ...

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