Another Pro-Migrant Electoral Victory
This was as big a victory for the immigrant community as it was for Democrats. Oberweis was very well known for his anti-immigrant stances, including “eliminating” birthright citizenship, speaking at several Minute Man meetings, and an infamous advertisement.
Rosanna Pulido, State Director of the Illinois Minuteman Project, wrote of Oberweis in 2007:
Let’s give the successful, admirable Oberweis a chance to bring success to Illinois. Oberweis has always supported the Minutemen and has shown up to our meetings when invited.
He has always shown his full support for grassroots activist who have fought illegal immigration in Illinois. Now it is time for Minutemen types to support him.
This election cycle, we are seeing that anti-immigrant rhetoric continues to lose at the ballot box, even in historically Republican areas like the Illinois 14th Congressional District. John McCain’s association with someone like Jim Oberweis will not pay off in November.
I only wish the Democrat supporters of the SAVE Act would get this message.
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Oklahoma 1804!!
We will continue to fight this invasion!!
Are you delusional to think that because one man lost you are safe?
LOL!!Wait till you see our next move!!
Wow I feel like an anti-migrant super villian stopped by at Citizen Orange. All that this comment above needed was a MUAHAHAHA at the end of it and I would have been spooked.