COMMENTARY
IMMIGRATION WATCH
An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration
movement
For the week of Aug 15, 2006
[AZ] Minutemen call for audit of Simcox organization
[RI] Paul Revere riders get frosty reception
[USA] Border watch groups gaining support
[AL] Conservative Christians support immigration crackdown WTVM
[IL] Residents oppose Illinois Minuteman Project
[AZ] Minutemen call for audit of Simcox organization
The Arizona Republic / August 11, 2006
A growing number of former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps loyalists are
demanding a detailed accounting of the $1.6 to $1.8 million MCDC has
received in donations.
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[RI] Paul Revere riders get frosty reception
The Providence Journal / August 9, 2006
Counter-protesters outside the State House in Providence greeted
anti-immigration bikers with "bullhorn-amplified shouts of 'Get Up!
Get Down! Get the Racists Out of Our Town!'"
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[USA] Border watch groups gaining support
Los Angeles Daily News / August 13, 2006
A nationwide backlash against pro-immigrant street protests is filling
the membership rolls and coffers of Minuteman chapters and hate group
American Border Patrol.
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[AL] Conservative Christians support immigration crackdown WTVM /
August 11, 2006
The Conservative Christians of Alabama called on members to
"intimidate" the Huntsville City Council into penalizing landlords who
rent to illegal immigrants.
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[IL] Residents oppose Illinois Minuteman Project
The Courier News / August 11, 2006
Hispanic citizens of Elgin spoke out against a Minuteman group's
demands to have the city's local police department "do more to deport
illegal immigrants."
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[USA] Gilchrist calls for Ford boycott
The Washington Post / August 6, 2006
The Minuteman Project co-founder called a new bi-lingual pick-up truck
advertisement "part of the Trojan horse domination of our culture."
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[USA] Simcox, Washington Times trade jabs
Houston Press / August 2, 2006
Washington Times Managing Editor Fran Coombs said, "It's time for the
Minutemen to stop the runaround and to start answering two very simple
questions: Where's the money, and how's it being spent?"
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[AZ] Minuteman group forms in Mohave County
Mohave Daily News / July 30, 2006
Mohave County Minutemen co-founder and "retired grandmother" Vriginia
Hilton said her new organization has 30 members in Kingman and
Bullhead City.
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[OH] Sheriff launches anti-immigration blog
The New York Times / July 30, 2006
Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones set up a blog to promote a
boycott
of local businesses that hire immigrants.
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LEARN MORE
Want to learn more about the anti-immigration movement? Read
thesearticles from the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence
Report:
*** The Nativists ***
A survey of hardliners who are fanning the flames of anti-immigration
extremism.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=576
*** The Little Prince ***
An investigative profile of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leader Chris
Simcox.
splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?site_area=1&aid=149
*** Playing Rough ***
Profiles of some of the more than 40 anti-immigration vigilante
outfits formed in the first six months after the Minuteman Project.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=571
*** The Puppeteer ***
A report detailing links between white supremacist organizations and
anti-immigration groups backed by Federation for American Immigration
Reform
(FAIR) founder John Tanton.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=93
*** Open Season ***
A 2003 feature on anti-immigration vigilantes in the pre-Minuteman
era.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=19
*** The Battle of Georgiafornia ***
A feature on the hate crime
backlash against Hispanic immigrants in Georgia.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=505
*** Arizona Showdown ***
A feature on the landmark April, 2005 Minuteman Project in Arizona.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=557
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