MoveOn Launches Immigration ‘Wall of Shame’ Campaign, New Website Calls Out Public Officials Who Use Bigoted, Racist Language
Rep. Steve King
Today, MoveOn.org is launching a new campaign aimed at exposing public and elected officials who use bigoted and racists language to describe immigrants and whose actions threaten to derail the passage of comprehensive immigration reform this year. The campaign, called the Immigration Wall of Shame, will make it clear that racist and bigoted language has no place in the debate around immigration reform.
The Immigration Wall of Shame is led by MoveOn.org members from around the country who, along with allies, will be holding public figures accountable for their bigoted and racist remarks.
The Immigration Wall of Shame exposes remarks by high level public and elected officials around the country including:
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI), who called immigrant children “anchor babies;”
Rep. Don Young (R-AK), who referred to immigrant workers as “wetbacks;”
Rep. Steven King (R-IA), who called DREAMer graduates “illegal aliens” when they visited his D.C. office; and
former Sen. Jim DeMint, now President of the Heritage Foundation, for supporting a report filled with racial stereotypes about immigrants, written by then-Heritage Foundation staffer Jason Richwine, who who once asserted that “no one knows if Hispanics will ever reach IQ parity with whites.”
The wall will be updated when public officials make a derogatory comment about immigrants in the weeks and months ahead.
KJ