As Congress heads into its five-week August recess, advocates for comprehensive immigration reform are preparing to launch an aggressive campaign to build momentum for the comprehensive approach and pressure House Republicans who have insisted on pursuing the issue one small, conservative-priority bill at a time. These advocates run the gamut from immigrant advocates, evangelicals, the business community and unions like the SEIU and AFL-CIO. Brave New Films, a liberal media group specializing in videos highlighting the flaws and contradictions of candidates and policies they don't like, is chipping in, too, with a video spoofing Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa), Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) and Ted Poe (R-Texas). Click the link below to watch "The Three Hateful Amigos: The GOP's Idea Of Latino Outreach.""
The media group's new video, which samples clips from the 1986 western comedy "Three Amigos", sees the three Republican representatives' faces superimposed on those of the film's stars. It also quotes each of the three once: Gohmert, as he asserts that Islamist terrorists have been trained to "act like they're Hispanic" to evade apprehension when in the United States; Poe, as he muses in a 2010 speech about why the United States could "capture illegal grasshoppers from Brazil, in the holds of ships," but not unauthorized immigrants; and King, in his recent assertion that most young undocumented immigrants brought to the US illegally by their parents are drug smugglers.
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"Three of the loudest anti-immigrant extremist voices are at it again. And they're ready to gun down anything that resembles reform for undocumented immigrants," a voiceover says toward the beginning of the clip.
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Brave New Films' past targets in their short films have included Fox News (the "Fox Attacks" series), health insurance companies, (2009's "Sick for Profit"), the war in Afghanistan ("Rethink Afghanistan"), and Senator John McCain (R-Ariz.) during his presidential campaign. One amid the "Real McCain" series focused on McCain's several mansions, after which the senator admitted in a costly interview "gaffe" that he wasn't sure how many homes he and his wife owned. Their founder and president, Robert Greenwald, has directed several exposes of a similar political orientation, including "Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price" (2005) and "Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War On Journalism" (2004).
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The "Three Amigos" spoof comes accompanied by the caption, "Don't let racism hijack immigration policy. Demand real, humane immigration legislation."
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