Arizona Luminaria article on AZ-07 congressional candidates' position on immigration includes No Labels Party candidate Richard Grayson

Today, Wednesday, June 18, 2025, Arizona Luminara published an article by John Washington, "Before you vote: The border politics of each candidate in Arizona’s special election," that mentions Richard Grayson:

Fiction writer and perennial candidate for Congress, Grayson said he was running with the No Labels party to “sabotage them.” Accusing the party of running as “spoilers,” he worries they will soon start to make regular appearances on the ballot in Arizona.

“I particularly hate the No Labels people,” Grayson said.

As a candidate for the presidential primary race in 2012, Grayson told Tucson Weekly that Republicans should be deported to the 18th century.

Grayson called running for Congress “a hobby” — he also ran for Congress in Alaska in 2024 and he is running for Congress in Arizona’s 5th Congressional District in 2026 — and said current immigration politics were “insane.”

“I’m outraged by people having no due process,” he said.

He said that deporting people is against America’s own interest, noting the dropping birth rate among native-born Americans. “They think we’re going to make babies all of a sudden, force people to make babies like the ‘Handmaid’s Tale’?”

He added, about immigrants: “We need these people.”

“Most of the undocumented people I know are better Americans than a lot of the native-born residents I know.”

Message to immigrants in the district: “It’s time to hit the panic button for democracy. It’s like the building is burning and you are talking like, ‘Oh, we should redecorate.’ It seems like no one has the urgency of the moment.”