Immigration Enthusiasts Go Loco Over Secretary of State Hire

A 23-year-old "opposition researcher" hired by the secretary of state's office is getting some rough treatment for his involvement with an immigration-control group.

Anthony Bonna, the secretary of state's new legislative affairs director, said he helped "craft attack response and identify/assess vulnerabilities" for Rick Scott's gubernatorial campaign.

The Port St. Lucie man also was a board member of Floridians for Immigration Enforcement (FLIMEN).

Those two resume lines raised concerns about the Georgetown University graduate, whom critics deem somehow unqualified for his new $48,000 position.

Though Bonna reportedly has resigned from the FLIMEN board, immigration advocates ranging from the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama to the Guatamalan Maya Center in Lake Worth have got their britches in a bunch.

"We are dismayed to find an activist from the heart of this campaign, an exponent of this philosophy, receive a governor's appointment to a central office of legislative affairs," the Maya Center's Ruth Doran told the Palm Beach Post. "We tend to be very politically and socially conservative people, so this demonstration of radical politics is shocking to us as a reversal of the values of the very country that saved our lives."

Really? Promoting the enforcement of this country's immigration laws constitutes "radical politics"?

Seems like a case of the pot calling the kettle black.