Sources report that US Representative Mark Kirk (R-Deerfield) is now making calls in anticipation of running for the Senate seat vacated by President Barack Obama. Increasingly, a candidate for Illinois statewide office needs to be able to add their partisan base the swing demographic of newly naturalized immigrant voters and their American born children. The following is a brief analysis of Kirk’s record on immigration and its impact for statewide office. Read more…
Read a post in the Huffington Post by Ahmed Rehab, Executive Director of the Council of American Islamic Organizations and board member of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Read more…
In a definite first for the City Club of Chicago, condoms lays scattered across the white linen tableclothes at their luncheon yesterday feature GOP Rep. Mark Kirk, thanks to a protest organized by the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights (ICIRR). The attendees may not have realized it, but when they politely accepted the contraceptives on the way in to the event, they held in their hands what Kirk had once suggested might be a substitute for Mexican border control. Read more…
