HispanicVista Columnists

An e-newsletter monitoring extremism in the anti-immigration movement

NOTE: The Nativists: Profiles of 20 Anti-Immigrant Leaders
A second wave of anti-immigration leaders, joining the activists who appeared after the 2005 Minuteman Project, are profiled in 20 short biographical sketches.
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[RI] Store Owner Demands Spanish-Speaking Customer's Social Security Card
The Providence Journal / March 12, 2008
Heating supply storeowner David C. Richardson flashed his Rhode Islanders for Immigration Law Enforcement badge and threatened to call federal immigration authorities when a U.S. citizen who was speaking Spanish in Richardson's store refused to produce a Social Security card.
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[VA] Immigration Crackdown Dampens Soccer League
The Washington Post / March 12, 2008
A crackdown on illegal immigration supported by the group Help Save Manassas has quieted the soccer leagues in Prince William County as Latino players and fans are afraid of attending games.
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[NY] Minuteman Leader Skips Out On Debate
Washington Square News / March 11, 2008
Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist failed to show up for a scheduled debate at New York University, where security was beefed up in preparation for his expected appearance.
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[TN] Anti-Immigration Leader Sues Dollywood
Indian Country News / March 8, 2008
Tennessee Volunteer Minutemen leader Carl "Two Feathers" Whitaker, who claims American Indian ancestry, filed a $5.5 million lawsuit against the Dollywood theme park alleging he was racially harassed when he was a Dollywood employee.
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For the week of March 11, 2008

[AZ] Jury Deadlocks In Border Patrol Murder Trial
Arizona Daily Star / March 8, 2008
Federal prosecutors vowed to retry U.S. Border Patrol Agent Nicholas Corbett after a jury deadlocked in deliberating whether Corbett was guilty of murder for shooting to death Mexican immigrant Francisco Javier
Dominguez Rivera in January 2007.
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[AZ] Anti-Immigration Leader Cited For Indecent Exposure
Phoenix New Times / March 8, 2008
"Buffalo" Rick Galeener, a prominent Arizona nativist, was cited for indecent exposure by a Phoenix police officer after Galeener allegedly urinated in public during a protest outside the Macehualli Work Center.
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[CA] Minutemen Protest Funding Of Shelter For Homeless Farmworkers
North Country Times / March 4, 2008
San Diego Minutemen leader Jeff Schwilk said he was "shocked and amazed" to learn that the Carlsbad City Council had voted to give Catholic Charities $108,500 in seed money toward a shelter for homeless farmworkers.
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[MO] Civil Rights Leaders Criticize Divisive Anti-Immigration Commercials
KMBC News / February 28, 2008
Television ads produced by a group calling itself the Coalition for the Future American Worker falsely claim that "immigration accounts for 40 percent of the decline in the employment of black men."
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LEARN MORE

To learn more about the anti-immigration movement, read these articles
from the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report:

*** The New Nativists ***
A second wave of anti-immigration leaders, joining the activists
who appeared after the 2005 Minuteman Project, are profiled in 20 short biographical sketches.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=885

*** Immigration Backlash ***
A list of hate crimes against perceived undocumented immigrants - and Latinos in general - shows a dramatic rise in violence.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=845

*** Teflon Nativists ***
The Federation for American Immigration (FAIR) is explored, due to its bigotry and ties to white supremacy.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=846

*** 'Christian' Nativism ***
A look at the way that Christian Right groups are dealing with the
contentious issue of illegal immigration.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=724

*** Smokescreen ***
Anti-immigration activists are touting a "black" group as proof that theirs
is not a racist movement. But the group is largely a creation of whites.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=672

*** Ruckus on the Right ***
Minuteman Project co-founder Chris Simcox has been
an icon of the
anti-immigration movement. But now allies are accusing him of improprieties.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=689

*** Policing the Undocumented ***
A lawyer writes that passing anti-'illegal alien' laws may be popular, but
the end result will be costly litigation that localities will lose.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=682

*** Deadly Force ***
A profile of Roy Warden, a hard-line anti-immigration activist who routinely threatens Latinos with death.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=671

*** The Nativists ***
A survey of hardliners who are fanning the flames of anti-immigration extremism.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=701

*** 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.

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*** 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 April 2005 Minuteman Project in Arizona.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=557

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