Trent Lott on Immigration

Now that Trent Lott is back in action in the Senate his views on immigration will certainly help to shape the legislative debate in the coming years.  His comments on the immigration protests, made last May to Fox News, suggest that this may not be a good thing for immigrants rights advocates.  Addressing the national protests, Lott said, “I view it as intimidation and extortion. I’m highly offended when illegal people come into this country, take jobs illegally and then protest and wave foreign flags.”

-jmc

P.S.  Here is a website collecting some of Senator Lott’s views on immigration.  It seems to me that JMC’s intuition is exactly right.