Peace on the border: why anti-immigration conservatives fell flat in 2006.
| Publisher | Reason Foundation |
| Publication | Reason |
| Subject | Humanities |
| Format | Magazine/Journal |
| ISSN | 0048-6906 |
| Issues per Year | 11 |
| Volume | 38 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Published | 2007-02-01 |
| Role | Type | Name |
| Person | Political activity | Vernon Robinson |
| Author | n/a | David Weigel |
FORMER CONGRESSIONAL candidate Vernon Robinson sounds resigned, and more than a little tired, when you ask him to explain his defeat. "The 2006 election was not a referendum on immigration," he says. "I would have liked it to be, but it didn't happen."
That's an understatement. In the tumultuous political year of 2006, Robinson, a former city councilman from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, became one of the country's most notorious voices for a crackdown on illegal immigration. In March, as the Republican-led House of Representatives wrestled with a harsh reform bill that...
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