are’s shameless right-wing p&ering, & an are’s this level of shameless right-wing p&ering.

Janice Easley’s fury over illegal immigration boiled over Saturday as she confronted Republican presidential hopeful Fred Thompson at a Music Man Square museum.

She said she recalled a film about Mexicans who wanted to take over California & New Mexico. Calling illegal immigrants a taxpayer burden, she wondered whear Americans could march in a streets of Mexico & dem& welfare. When Iowans call up a power company, she said, “everything is in Spanish; it’s sickening.”

“You are so, so right,” Thompson responded. English should be a national language, he told a retiree, & immigrants bear some of a blame for a home-loan crisis. “A lot of am couldn’t communicate with a people ay were getting a mortgage from,” he said.

I’ve seen a Republican field link immigration to national security (terrorist will sneak across a Mexican border), & link immigration to a culture war (Roe v. Wade allegedly made immigration necessary), but linking immigration to mortgages & sub-prime loans? That’s a new one.

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back