Meet the Witnesses Who Have the GOP's Ear on Immigration

Since the start of the 114th so-called "New American Congress," Speaker Boehner and the House GOP have pushed to deport DREAMers, separate families, and turn 11 million undocumented immigrants into criminals overnight.  The House GOP has reserved tomorrow as yet again, another field day to continue attacking Latino and immigrant families all across the United States.  And ahead of their House Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on "birthright citizenship," meet the extremists, far-right supposed ‘witnesses' House Republicans have willfully invited to testify before the panel – see what they stand for:

Lino Graglia:

• Opposes affirmative action because, according to him, black and Mexican-American students are "not academically competitive" and it is not "good for whites to be with the lower classes";
• Claims black and Latino students perform academically badly because they are raised in single parent households;
• Is considered "not qualified" to serve on the federal bench by the American Bar Association;
• Encouraged Austin residents to defy a court-ordered busing plan that was designed to remedy school segregation;
• Was dropped as a candidate to serve on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals by President Ronald Reagan for referring to African Americans as "pickaninnies."

John C. Eastman:

• Supported Arizona's discriminatory ‘show me your papers' bill, SB 1070;
• Labeled President Obama's bold immigration executive actions as a ‘constitutional crisis';
• Believes the states' lawsuit against the Administration's ‘lawlessness' is ‘spot on.'

Jon Feere:

• Called President Obama's immigration actions a "gift to the 1 percent";
• Bizarrely blamed the 1993 World Trade Center attack on immigration;
• Attempted to blame Democrats for the potential DHS Republican Shutdown.

When it comes to immigration-related committee hearings, House Republicans only support one thing: allowing extremists to demonize immigrant families.