Tea Party activists go out of their way to insist that they're not partisan, racist, or filled with hate; they're just patriots who want to stop a "socialist" government machine from controlling their daily lives.
The new immigration law in Arizona should be ripe for the Tea Parties to take up. SB-1070 is the "broadest and strictest immigration measure in generations," giving police unprecedented power to detain anyone they suspect of being an undocumented immigrant and making "the failure to carry immigration documents a crime." Even traditionally far-right figures like former Colorado congressman Tom Tancredo and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee have worried that the law might lead to racial profiling abuses by the government.
rest http://thinkprogress.org/2010/04/27/arizona-tea-parties/
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