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Humanitarian crisis, which is why faith leaders are imploring the president and congress to help them. the leaders of the national latino evangelical coalition had this to say yesterday. we stand ready to assist the government with the overwhelming demand for humanitarian aid. the growing concern around thousands of unaccompanied minors has a ready response in linguistically capable and culturally compatible community ready to help. at the table jim wallace, president and founder, alia, judy peno and reverend sam cruz. so we were just talking about those images that we saw from mark potter and the fact that they do constitute a kind of ideological rorschach test. what you see when you are looking at those border crossings. that s right. mr. potter is absolutely correct, are they illegal immigrants or are they refugees? it depends where you stand on the fence. but the truth is that our border ....
Cantor is stopping the plan to give illegal aliens amnesty. but it was the seventh district primary voters who stopped cantor s plan to return to congress next year. the question of whether immigration affected cantor s campaign drew this response. cantor s problem wasn t his position on immigration reform, it was his lack of a position. graham wrote and passed a bill and is winning big. the graham is republican senator lindsey graham of south carolina who ran on immigration, faced a tough primary and still won. now, as a political scientist, i m wary of analysis offered too swiftly in the wake of an election. it simply is going to take us more time to disentangle the complicated factors that caused tuesday s electoral outcome. but let me suggest this. figuring out whether cantor lost because of his stance on immigration is less consequential than determining what happens now to the ongoing stalemate in the national effort to bring about immigration reform. ....
Issue? i love the way yukon trafted conventional politics with needing a miracle and act of god. as you know, the heart of faith is to love god, and then right away, immediately to love your neighbor as yourself. in matthew 25, jesus says how you treat the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, the stranger, the immigrant, those who are sick and in prison is how you treat me. soy van g y van gel evangelicale how we treat 11 million undocumented people is how we treat christ himself. we brought the gospel to the congress. this is not only a moral issue, it s a faith imperative for us. how we treat the stranger is a ....
Because of skpit yaconstituency. i know some college professors, they re smart people. are we maybe downplaying that he was in fact a pretty strong challenger? so i think the key thing for brat is, is he going to make any really big mistakes and so far he has knonot done that. that was his moment. chuck todd could have akinned him and he s like, no, you re not going to akin me. he looks a little weak in that segment but that s not enough to look really bad in a district that mitt romney got 57% in and is o probably would like to vote for a republican in the general election. as to graham, i wanted to make a point that we were talking about how lindsey graham survived on a day that eric cantor didn t. one thing going for graham is that he had a big field of opponents, all of whom were fairly weak. i think that if one of south carolina s members of congress, ....
Rises. but also they used to bring home the bacon. if there s no bacon left to bring home, what is the thing that you can frank out to your constituents. the thing that you can do for your constituents is basically do the basic constituent services stuff that members of congress do. people are always asking congressmen for help with one small thing or another. one of the things that i think sort of trickled out after this election was that a lot of people voted against cantor because they tried calling the office for some small reason and never got a call back and that sort of thing. to the point about the spending of money, i do think the point raised by the panel that eric cantor probably raised the profile of dave brat by naming brat in campaign ads, i think that s probably right. in fact this is not just something that happened in this race. a member of congress, a freshman, was telling me a couple of weeks ago that he actually thanked the leader of the other party for running ad ....