Are state Democrats now marching to the same beat as the Republicans when it comes to immigration? Three speakers at the Albemarle/Charlottesville Democratic Breakfast exhorted local Dems to keep supporting basic rights for immigrants in the face of more than 100 bills in the General Assembly officially geared to make life tougher for illegal immigrants but which would make life tougher for legal immigrants as well. Asked Peter Loach, a member of the Governor’s Virginia Latino Advisory Board, “What happened to the progressives’ outrage?”
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