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, Kansas Secretary of State and the architect of harsh, anti-immigrant laws in several states and cities, made a special trip to Hatewatch鈥檚 home state last week to testify in Birmingham before the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.

The statutes pushed by Kobach 鈥� among them Arizona鈥檚 SB 1070 and Alabama鈥檚 even more draconian HB 56 鈥� were devised to make life so miserable for undocumented immigrants that they give up and 鈥渟elf-deport.鈥� A lawyer with degrees from Harvard, Oxford and Yale, he began crafting anti-immigrant policy while working in John Ashcroft鈥檚 Department of Justice. In 2004, he was hired as senior counsel to the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), where he devised immigration legislation that would later serve as the basis of the laws in Arizona and Alabama. (IRLI is the legal arm of the , an anti-immigrant hate group that yearns for a return to the days when immigration policy favored light-skinned northern Europeans over all others.)

These days, Kobach serves as secretary of state of Kansas, where he has pushed and continued to be active in immigration restriction efforts across the country. On Friday, he appeared in Birmingham as a witness at a U.S. Commission on Civil Rights field briefing on the civil rights impact of the state immigration laws he drafted and pushed.

were ready. At one point during his testimony, five women stood up to reveal T-shirts that spelled out 鈥淪top Hate.鈥� They were followed by a series of demonstrators carrying banners reading 鈥淯ndocumented,鈥� who interrupted Kobach, shouting over him in Spanish and English until police arrived to escort them peacefully from the room.

During the question-and-answer portion of the testimony, Commission Chairman Marty Castro asked if Kobach was aware of , the Arizona legislator who worked with Kobach to push through SB 1070.

Absolutely not, Kobach said. 鈥淣othing has hurt me more in this whole debate than when people start pointing at someone and saying that you鈥檙e doing this because you鈥檙e a racist, you鈥檙e a nativist. 鈥� It hurts me because I鈥檓 not, and that鈥檚 false witness against me,鈥� he said. 鈥淚f I had any indication that a state legislator who was coming to me for assistance had any racially biased motive, any ethnically biased motive, I would refuse to assist him or her.鈥�

If that鈥檚 true, Kobach 鈥� who bragged to the commission about being a 鈥渃areful attorney鈥� 鈥� must have somehow missed the warnings, issued for years by the Southern Poverty Law Center and other organizations, about Pearce鈥檚 bigotry. The former Arizona legislator an article from the neo-Nazi website. Worse, he with for more than a year after the latter was exposed as a prominent member of the , the country鈥檚 largest neo-Nazi group. Ready killed himself in May, but not before fatally shooting his girlfriend, her daughter, and the daughter鈥檚 boyfriend and 15-month-old baby girl.

Kobach was the first of 20 to speak at what turned out to be a contentious hearing. While the commissioners delivered politically charged speeches and squabbled with each other over rules, witness testimony strayed far from the briefing鈥檚 stated purpose of exploring whether state immigration enforcement laws were leading to civil rights violations.

Dan Stein, president FAIR, the anti-immigrant hate group Kobach was working for when he devised the bills under scrutiny on Friday, testified that America is on brink of 鈥渘ational catastrophe鈥� because its borders are too open. He also declared that his organization had since its founding opposed discriminatory immigration laws.

That鈥檚 simply not true: In fact, Stein himself once described the end of race-based immigration quotas as a form of 鈥渞evengism鈥� devised to 鈥渞etaliate against Anglo-Saxon dominance.鈥�

Hands down, the most bizarre comments of the day came from Carol Swain, an African-American professor of political science and law at Vanderbilt University best known to readers of this blog for her habit of 鈥� including one who , 鈥淸T]hese EVIL monkeys are DESTROYING the greatest nation ever built!鈥�

Testifying before the commission on Friday, Swain described herself as a spokesperson for 鈥渨e the people鈥� as outlined in the U.S. Constitution, and said that in her opinion, the Obama administration is doing nothing to deal with America鈥檚 鈥渋mmigration nightmare.鈥�

Swain also quoted Romans 13, which says that even manmade law is divinely authorized. 鈥淧eople who consider themselves Christians really should consider this Scripture when they take their position on immigration,鈥� she said. 鈥淎nd for the atheists and the secular humanists, it鈥檚 not for you, I鈥檓 speaking to Christians.鈥�