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As the man behind the self-deportation movement, it's no surprise that Kris Kobach is a key anti-immigration connector. (Check out Suzy Khimm's profile here.) After all, he's worked with key state legislators, like Alabama state Sen. Scott Beason, and municipal authorities, like notorious Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, in drafting and polishing dozens of restrictive immigration laws. (He says he even wrote parts of Alabama's HB 56 while in a turkey blind.) Advertise on MotherJones.com As a 2004 congressional candidate, Kobach received campaign contributions from Tanton's wife's US Immigration Reform PAC and former Colorado Rep. Tom Tancredo's Team America PAC. Currently Kansas' secretary of state, the 45-year-old Kobach—referred to by MoJo contributing writer Jack Hitt as "ruggedly handsome in a TV superhero rip-off-his-shirt sort of way" on a January episode of This American Life—has struggled to gain support for an Alabama-like law in the Sunflower State.
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Started in 2007 by Pennsylvania state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe, State Legislators for Legal Immigration works to eliminate "all economic attractions and incentives (including, but not limited to: public benefits, welfare, education and employment opportunities) for illegal aliens, as well as securing our borders against unlawful invasion." The group most notably has pushed for a Supreme Court ruling on the 14th Amendment, which the SLLI believes shouldn't grant citizenship to the US-born children of undocumented immigrants; it also has teamed with the FAIR-aligned Immigration Reform Law Institute to draft legislation ending such birthright citizenship. Metcalfe hasn't shied away from controversy, often referring to the "illegal alien invasion" facing the country and filing an amicus brief (PDF) in support of Arizona's SB 1070. Of the SLLI's 68 members, 15 sponsored copycat legislation in 2010 or 2011.
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Americans for Legal Immigration PAC has contributed to a who's who of immigration hardliners, from Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-Ariz.) to Rep. Lou Barletta (R-Pa.). Team America, founded by Tancredo and co-chaired by Bay Buchanan (Pat's sis), has pumped more than $100,000 into House and Senate races since 2004.
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