Levy has promoted strict anti-immigrant policies and has supported employer verification efforts and restrictions on drivers licenses for illegal immigrants.

However, the AFL had a strict anti-immigrant policy, and so the laundry companies imported laborers from Mexico who were willing to work for reduced wages.

He's pro-choice, he opposes discrimination in any form, and he's stood up against anti-immigrant policies.

"I don't personally see some sort of harsh anti-immigrant policy coming out of this," he said.

The group later formed the "Know-Nothings," a 19th-century political party that supported an anti-immigrant policy in the United States.

"People speculate this is part of an anti-immigrant policy, but it's just law," he said.

Pizada asked her whether, as the daughter of an immigrant herself, she was not betraying her heritage by supporting anti-immigrant policies.

He said he did this to protest the supposed anti-labour, homophobic and anti-immigrant policies of the Alliance.

The politics of immigration, though less prominent than in 1996 when anti-immigrant policies were ascendant in Congress, remain an important element in this year's presidential campaigns.

Hostile feelings have been growing between Denmark's immigrants and a government supported by the right-wing Danish People's Party, which has pushed anti-immigrant policies.