Guest Column
HATEWATCH: NATIVIST NEWS
An e-newsletter monitoring extremism in the anti-immigration
movement
For the week of April 8, 2008
[AZ] Minuteman Offshoot Deploys Border Cameras
Arizona Republic / April 4, 2008
The founder of TechnoPatriots, a Minuteman Civil Defense Corps splinter
faction, claims that remote monitoring of the group's long range and
thermal cameras on the border has resulted in 116 arrests since last
November.
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[AZ] Minutemen Protest Second Graders Reciting Pledge In Spanish
Arizona Daily Star / April 4, 2008
A Minuteman Civil Defense Corps member launched an Internet protest
campaign against his son's second-grade teacher's practice of having her
students recite the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish and American Sign
Language every morning after first reciting it in English.
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[IA] Judge Rules In Favor Of English-Only Law
Des Moines Register / April 4, 2008
A district court judge ruled in favor of U.S. Rep. Steve King, who sued
Iowa officials for allegedly violating the state's English-only law by
offering Spanish-language voter registration forms online.
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[SC] South Carolina Minutemen: Jesus Would Deport Illegal Immigrants
Myrtle Beach Sun News / March 30, 2008
Members of the South Carolina chapter of the Minutemen Civil Defense
Corps, who distribute literature claiming "hundreds of our children are
raped by illegal invaders every year," argued that Jesus would stand with
them against illegal immigration.
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For the week of April 1, 2008
[NY] Hit And Run Investigated As Hate Crime
ABC News / March 31, 2008
Suffolk County Police Hate Crimes Unit detectives are investigating a hit
and run incident in which a 42-year-old Hispanic day laborer suffered a
skull fracture after being struck by a vehicle while waiting for work near
a gas station with other immigrant laborers.
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[AZ] 'Battle of Bell Road' Draws United For A Sovereign America Members
Phoenix New Times / March 28, 2088
About 20 members of United For A Sovereign America waved racist signs and
taunted hundreds of civil rights demonstrators who gathered to protest
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's latest anti-immigrant dragnet.
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[FL] Nativist Groups Expanding In Florida
Miami Herald / March 31, 2008
Membership in a growing cohort of Florida nativist organizations continues
to swell and the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps has established a chapter
in Miami, the city with the nation's highest percentage of foreign-born
residents.
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[UT] Minutemen Call For Mexico Travel Boycott
Deseret Morning News / March 29, 2008
Minuteman groups in California and Utah are campaigning to boycott all
travel to Mexico to protest a Mexican consulate employee's apparent call
for "reconquest."
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For the week of March 25, 2008
[MA] Nativist Group Linked To White Supremacists
The MetroWest Daily News / March 20, 2008
An SPLC investigation found that Concerned Citizens and Friends of Illegal
Immigration Law Enforcement, or CCFIILE, has attracted a number of
hard-core racists and neo-Nazis.
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[CA] Anti-Immigration Activists Accuse City Council Members Of Treason
San Bernardino County Sun / March 16, 2008
Earlier this month, members of the Minuteman Project appeared at a Pomona
City Council meeting to demand a crackdown on immigrant day laborers, who
Minuteman Project spokesman Ray Herrera called a "cancer that is taking
over society as a whole."
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[OK] Oklahoma Lawmaker Plans Official English Legislation
The Shawnee News-Star / March 19, 2008
Rep. Randy Terrill, the author of Oklahoma's sweeping anti-illegal
immigration law, is now planning legislation to make English the official
language of the state.
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[KS] Kansas City Archbishop Decries Militant Immigration Rhetoric
The Kansas City Star / March 15, 2008
As Kansas and Missouri lawmakers navigate the political minefield of
immigration reform, Kansas City Catholic Archbishop Joseph Naumann
testified that if illegal immigration is an invasion, it is "the strangest
invasion in history, where the invaders clean our houses and harvest our
crops."
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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.
splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?aid=571
*** 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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