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June 26, 2007 03:36 PM UTC

At Least It's Not Your State Party

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Suppose there was an issue that’s really, really important to your party’s platform–immigration, for example.

Now, if you were in charge of the party, you’d take extra-special care not to do anything that makes you look like a complete hypocrite, wouldn’t you? Apparently not if you’re the California Republican Party, as the Washington Post reports:

The California Republican Party is having a tough time with immigrants — but not because of the usual debates over Mexican border crossers. For the nation’s largest state GOP, the troubles hit closer to home.

First the party was forced to admit it had hired a Canadian citizen with no political experience to be its new political director, under the H-1B visa program — a program that grants temporary visas. Now revelations have surfaced that the party’s chief operating officer, an Australian citizen, was ordered deported in 2001, spent one month in jail and then filed a lawsuit in federal court alleging wrongful arrest. The officer resigned on Sunday.

The California GOP platform supports federal action to end illegal immigration and calls for an end to non-emergency assistance to illegal immigrants…

Shortly after he was hired, [Australian citizen and California GOP operations director Michael] Kamburowski, in turn, hired Canadian national Christopher Matthews to be the party’s political director, leaving the top two paid jobs in the state party in the hands of noncitizens.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Sunday that Kamburowski arrived in the United States in 1995 and later married and then divorced a citizen. The Immigration and Naturalization Service began trying to deport him in 2001, but Kamburowski’s lawsuit claims he did not receive the notices. He was jailed after an immigration hearing in 2004 and released on bond one month later.

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17 thoughts on “At Least It’s Not Your State Party

    1. But you sure do care a lot about Presidential Politics to bring it up constantly on the Pols. If the issue isn’t to your liking, don’t comment.

      What you are missing here is the fact that GOP points to California as having the greatest problem with immigration, and of course we all know how corrupt the California GOP is with suppressing Latino votes; sending out robo-calls and mailings claiming that if any Latino votes (regardless of their immigration status) they will be deported.

      This directly effects us since many California’s come to Colorado. Most recently, one is trying to put an Anti-Affirmative action initiative on our ballot.

      1. effects me and life in CO so we all should be commenting on those.  I get sick of these stuck up posts by pols “at least he’s not your…” like our leaders in CO are all that great. 

      1. ………….???????????????

        Not that those guys in CA were politicians.

        Hey!  Aren’t H1B visas good for only one employer?  Isn’t America LOADED with people willing to have a real, paying job in a political organization? 

          1. As long as there is a back door, employers will use it to the detriment of American workers.  If, truly, the need is there, in awhile the labor force will catch up.  It might be painful for two or four years as student go through the educational python, but it will happen. 

          2. …apparently from a German referring to their immigration boom of the 1960’s.

            “What we wanted were workers, but what we got were people.”

            Deja vu all over again…

        1. There are a couple of exceptions related to changing status.

          Current U.S. law states that employers who hire foreign workers must “attest” that there are no domestic workers who could fill their positions.

          But as the rules are written, there is generally, no requirement that an citizen be sought to fill a position.

          Because no proof, or effort is required. US worker preference is hollow.

          If preference were enforced H-1B MIGHT be ok.

  1. Pols: Now, if you were in charge of the party, you’d take extra-special care not to do anything that makes you look like a complete hypocrite, wouldn’t you?

    Why are their Republicans any different from our Democrats?

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