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Trump may name #KrisKobach as Immigration Czar. Their real agenda: 2020 vote suppression. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
It’s an especially cute move by Trump, as this newly crafted position, unlike an appointment to other cabinet level posts, will not require Senate approval, not even a hearing. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
I’ve been investigating #KKKobach for six years. He's the guy who drafted Arizona’s notorious “SB 1070” law which the ACLU dubbed the, “Driving While Brown law” – found unconstitutional by Federal Courts. latimes.com/nation/la-na-a…
Kobach lost another federal suit for unconstitutionally requiring proof-of-citizenship to vote. He admitted the Kansas rule did not stop even one alien from registering, but did block 36,000 citizens from voting in 2016 including two US Air Force officers. gregpalast.com/trumps-alien-v…
Kobach directed the infamous #Crosscheck vote purge system for 30 states. Our investigation for @RollingStone determined that at least 1.1 million Americans, mostly voters of colors, were wrongly purged from the voter rolls before the 2016 election. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
#Kobach wrote local laws, all struck down by courts, which made it a crime to conduct business with an “illegal alien.” He bamboozled towns, such as Farmers Branch, Texas, into hiring him for a failed legal defense of these racially poisonous statutes. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
The list goes on... It was #Kobach who suggested the Census include a question about non-citizens living in your home. slate.com/news-and-polit…
Trying to get straight answers from #Kobach about his racially poisoned vote-purging shenanigans has not been easy. After several refusals to speak with me about our findings, in 2016, I finally tracked him down in Wichita, with my crew pretending to be from a local station.
#Kobach, cornered, spewed out a series of flat-out lies. For example, he denied that he targeted clearly innocent voters in Kansas and Georgia as suspected “double registered”. I showed him the computer files from his own office and he decided to run for it — literally!
We could dismiss #Kobach as just another slap-stick huckster if he weren’t the author of mass purges of legitimate voters. For examples, in Georgia, 591,000 voters were knocked off the rolls in 2017 alone — thanks to Kobach's #Crosscheck lists. gregpalast.com/have-you-been-…
If Trump goes through with the appointment, #Kobach will go well beyond ordering cruelties on families at the border. Kobach has made clear his big goal has been to remove alien voters from rolls nationwide.
Indeed, Kobach believes that these sneaky aliens from south of the border account for much of Hillary Clinton’s popular vote victory in 2016. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
With access to Homeland Security and Census records, #Kobach could give deportation lists and “non-citizen” Census files to GOP state voting officials. They could then require Americans with names like “José Garcia” to prove they are citizens. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
In 2012, Florida did a test run of this purge operation, identifying some 181,000 “potential” aliens on their voter rolls. nbcmiami.com/news/local/Nea…
They convicted just one (an Austrian registered as a Republican), but scared untold numbers of Hispanics away from voting. Many lost their registration because they could not take a day to go to court to prove they are Americans. gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
That’s the real danger in this “Immigration Czar” appointment: #Kobach could organize the purge of young voters and voters of color by the hundreds of thousands before the 2020 election — just like he did in 2016! gregpalast.com/trump-may-name…
Help us #StopTheSteal: Support our continuing investigation of #KrisKobach, of #VoterSuppression in #Georgia, of the latest vote trickery which we are tracking in over 30 states. Make a tax-deductible donation right now! palastinvestigativefund.org/?StopTheStealA… 
