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</div><div>=</div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Those disappointed to see anti-immigrant zealot Tom Tancredo off the national political stage will find a similar one-issue firebrand in Pennsylvania Congressman-Elect Lou Barletta.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barletta rose to national prominence as the mayor of Hazleton, Pennsylvania, a small working class city that in 2006 enacted some of the most draconian anti-immigrant measures in the country. Hazleton’s <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/AR2006082101484.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">law</a> put tough penalties on individuals and businesses who knowingly or unknowingly did business with undocumented immigrants—it revoked for five years the business license of any business caught employing an undocumented immigrant, and slapped landlords caught renting to undocumented immigrants with a $1,000-a-day fine. The law also declared English the official language of Hazleton, and prohibited city officials from translating documents without permission.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When the law passed, Barletta<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/21/AR2006082101484.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> told</a> the Washington Post, “I will get rid of the illegal people. It’s this simple: <em style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear;">They must leave</em>.” On the day the city passed the measure, Barletta wore a bulletproof vest to illustrate his concern over crimes he said were being committed by undocumented immigrants. <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numb" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Statistics</a>, however, showed that undocumented immigrants were hardly responsible for a crime wave in Hazelton: the city’s data showed that of 8,575 felonies committed in the city between 2000 and 2007, 20 had been linked to undocumented immigrants. Later, forced to admit that he had no proof of an illegal immigrant-caused crime wave, or proof that illegal immigrants were crowding Hazleton’s schools and hospitals, or even any idea how many illegal immigrants were in Hazelton, Barletta <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numb" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">responded</a>, “The people in my city don’t need numbers.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">After the law took effect, businesses catering to Latino residents that had revitalized Hazleton’s downtown area saw a <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/17/60minutes/main2195789_page3.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">sharp drop</a> in business, and Latino residents reported increased hostility from white residents.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A federal judge struck down Barletta’s law in 2007, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazletons-anti-immigrant-ordinance-struck-down" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">writing</a>, “The genius of our Constitution is that it provides rights even to those who evoke the least sympathy from the general public. Hazleton, in its zeal to control the presence of a group deemed undesirable, violated the rights of such people, as well as others within the community.” An appeals court this year <a href="http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/pa/20100910_Federal_appeals_court_strikes_down_Hazleton_s_immigration_ordinances.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">upheld</a> the ruling.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although Barletta claimed to be defending “the legal taxpayer of any race,” he admitted that he <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numbhttp:/www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hazleton-mayor-has-trouble-backing-claims-immigrant-crime-wave-people-my-city-dont-need-numb" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">found inspiration</a> for the law from the website of self-described “proud nationalist” Jim Turner, who pushed a similar measure in San Bernardino, California to prevent the state from becoming, as he put it, a “<a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2006/09/wsj_small_group.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">Third World Cesspool</a>.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">As copy-cat laws started to pop up in towns around the country, Barletta became a hero to anti-immigrant and nativist groups. When he ran for Congress in 2008, Barletta’s campaign <a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/spring/money-the-minutemen" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">received</a> $10,920 from the Minuteman PAC, the political spending arm of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a vigilante border-patrol group that the Southern Poverty Law Center<a href="http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2009/spring/money-the-minutemen" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> calls</a> “nativist extremist.” It was the largest donation the Minuteman PAC made to a candidate that year.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In 2009, Barletta drew fire for speaking at a conference hosted by The American Cause, a group that had earlier that year released a<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/01/opinion/01sun1.html?r=3" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> report</a> urging the Republican Party to not “pander to pro-amnesty Hispanics and swing voters,” and instead to put anti-immigrant policies at the forefront of the party’s strategy. The report was authored by several anti-immigrant advocates, many who had clear records of dabbling in white supremacy. The executive director of the group, and main author of the report, had even been <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/02/marcus-epsteins-racist-as_n_210163.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">charged</a> with a hate crime against an African American woman. The immigrants’ rights group America’s Voice<a href="http://americasvoiceonline.org/pages/background_briefing_the_american_cause_conferenc" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> described</a> the 2009 conference as “a forum for white nationalists to forge ties with ‘mainstream’ media commentators and conservative leaders.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Although Barletta frames most of his politics through the lens of illegal immigration, he has also embraced Tea Party talking points on social issues, the environment, and the scope of government. In a candidates’ debate, he<a href="http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101028/NEWS/101029733" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> said</a> his first action as a member of Congress would be to vote to repeal health care reform. He<a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#health-care" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> says</a> the Affordable Care Act brought about “nationalized health care” and said it would put “life-affecting health decisions in the hands of bureaucrats,” and echoed the <a href="http://www.pfaw.org/media-center/publications/after-citizens-united-look-into-the-pro-corporate-players-american-politic#common" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">false claim</a> raised by many in the Tea Party that health care reform “will take $500 billion out of Medicare.” He<a href="http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101020/NEWS/10200328" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> told</a> a forum in Pocono, “We’re afraid of our government. We’re afraid of what our government is going to do” and <a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#spending" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claimed</a> on his campaign website that President Obama and Democrats in Congress are “spending our country into servitude.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In terms of government spending, Barletta<a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#spending" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> took particular issue</a> with the comparatively miniscule $1.1 million that was spent to send members of Congress and their staffers to last year’s climate summit in Copenhagen. He <a href="http://citizensvoice.com/news/despite-varying-views-kanjorski-barletta-agree-a-lot-on-energy-issues-1.1050145" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">claims</a> to be a climate change skeptic, saying, “You know there’s arguments on both sides. I’m not convinced that there’s scientific evidence that proves that. I believe there’s some that can also argue the opposite.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">When Obama created a panel to distribute recovery funds from BP’s $20 billion escrow account after the Gulf oil spill, Barletta<a href="http://www.loubarletta.com/blog/the-gulf-needs-relief-not-government" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;"> said</a>, “It’s exactly what the people of the Gulf don’t need – more bureaucracy.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barletta’s record as mayor of Hazleton doesn’t speak well, however, for his future as a fiscal problem solver: his <a href="http://www.timesleader.com/news/2010_Barletta_budget_prposal_includes_layoffs_tax_and_fee_hikes.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">budget</a> for Hazleton last year hikes taxes and fees, and called for laying off government workers—including a number of police officers. As Barletta leaves office, Hazleton has the <a href="http://citizensvoice.com/news/hazleton-s-unemployment-highest-in-pa-1.879835" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">highest </a>rate of unemployment in Pennsylvania. Despite raising taxes as Mayor of Hazleton, Barletta has <a href="http://www.atr.org/current-list-taxpayer-protection-pledge-signers-a5597" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">signed </a>Americans for Tax Reform’s pledge to never raise taxes in Washington.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Barletta <a href="http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20101020/NEWS/10200328" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">opposes</a> marriage equality, Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell repeal, and abortion rights. He has also embraced right-wing conspiracy theories about government-run “death panels” and the imminent risk of human cloning, <a href="http://loubarletta.com/issues#right-to-life" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">stating</a> on his website, “I will oppose the efforts of some to increase or expand the protection or establishment of legal euthanasia, abortion, and human cloning. As Congress begins to tackle the issues of Medicare and health care reform, I will never support a program that results in rationing of life-saving procedures to those covered under those programs.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">In his predictably hostile <a href="http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:kHFWWO9xYLkJ:www.loubarletta.com/news/Lou_Strongly_Opposes_Ground_Zero_Mosque+lou+barletta+ground+zero+mosque&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=firefox-a" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">response</a> to the planned Islamic community center in lower Manhattan, he advanced the popular right-wing pseudo-historical theory of Muslim “victory mosques.”</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em; font-family: Helvetica-Light, "Helvetica Light", Helvetica, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 1.5; color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-size: 18px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">While Barletta, it seems, will be a reliable vote for the Republican Party’s far-right wing, he’s already emerging as a leader on anti-immigrant zealotry. Two days after the election, he went on Fox News to <a href="http://politicalcorrection.org/video/201011040007" target="_blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-property: background-color, border-color, box-shadow, color, opacity, text-shadow, transform, -webkit-transform; transition-timing-function: linear; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(174, 39, 43); outline-offset: 0.111111em; text-decoration-line: none;">accuse</a> Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of attempting to buy Hispanic votes by introducing the widely popular DREAM Act, which provides a path to citizenship for those who entered the country illegally as children and who go on to college or military service.</p></div><div>==</div>