In case you missed it, yesterday the Las Vegas Sun published an editorial
on Republican attempts to mislead America and hide their effort to make 12
million immigrants into felons.

Not just Nevada, all across the country the Republican effort to revise
history has fallen flat. Last week ABC7 in San Francisco got it exactly
right  .

Republicans are running an ad on Spanish-language radio stations in cities
with large Hispanic populations, including Albuquerqe, that claims Senate
Minority Leader Harry Reid's Democratic "allies" have voted to "treat
millions of hard-working immigrants as felons."

Of course, as anyone who has paid attention to the immigration debate in
Congress knows, it is the Republican-led House that has wanted to make it
a felony to be an illegal immigrant.

In contrast, it has been the Democrats and some moderate Republicans who have opposed making illegal immigration a crime. They instead have advocated legislation that would make it possible for illegal immigrants to gain citizenship after several years and meeting a number of requirements.

So what's behind the Republican National Committee's patently false ad?
Politics of the worst kind. Republicans in the House are taking a beating
for their punitive approach to immigration, and because Republicans
everywhere might get tarred by the House's shortsighted tactics to curry
favor with the Republican political base, the GOP is trying to confuse
voters.

If President Bush and his fellow Republicans, particularly the leaders in
Congress, wanted to show some leadership, they would condemn this ad.

Otherwise, it would appear that they really aren't serious about passing
immigration reform and are more interested in trying to score cheap
partisan shots in an election year.

How pathetic.