Angle revives immigration charges in new ad

Republican strategists maintain Sharron Angle's commercials attacking Sen. Harry Reid on immigration have been effective for her. 

That may explain why her newest ad returns to that familiar issue, even though similar ones have been criticized for accuracy and racial overtones.

Here's the ad.  As with a previous one, it contains multiple images of tough-looking youths to portray Latinos,  contrasted with distressed white family members and blonde schoolgirls.

"Harry Reid,  It's clear whose side he is on,  and its not yours," the narrator intones. 

As in past ads, this one says Reid "voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits,  tax breaks and college tuition." 

Reid spokesman Kelly Steele said the Angle spot "hits a new low reiterating the same thoroughly debunked lies with the most despicable imagery yet." 

The non-partisan Politifact has said the statement that Reid voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits is "barely true"  while the statement that he voted to give them tax breaks is "false."

The new Angle ad also says Reid voted twice against making English the national language.  

In May 2006, Reid voted against an amendment by Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., "to declare English as the national language of the United States."   Reid in a Senate speech called it "racist."  The amendment passed,  62-35.

Inhofe the next year proposed a similar amendment.  It passed, 64-33, with Reid among the dissenters.