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IMMIGRATION WATCH
IMMIGRATION WATCH
An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration
movement
For the week of May 15, 2007
[US] Lou Dobbs Refuses to Retract False Reporting
on Leprosy
Southern Poverty Law Center / May 9, 2007
CNN is under pressure to retract wildly inaccurate data on leprosy in
America reported by the controversial host of "Lou Dobbs Tonight," who
linked a false rise in leprosy to illegal immigration.
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[WA] Immigration Rally Shoving Match Leads to Weapons Raid
NBC 4 News / May 3, 2007
Police found more than a dozen rifles in the home of a man who was
arrested carrying a flare gun, knives, and a stun gun after he distributed
fliers depicting soldiers shooting pregnant women and shoved demonstrators
at a pro-immigration reform rally.
splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=115#2
[AZ] Notorious Nativist Files $10 Million Lawsuit
Arizona Daily Star / May 10, 2007
Roy Warden has sued the Tucson Police Department and 100 named and unnamed
public officials for violating his rights to free speech and "conspiring
to protect illegal border crossers."
splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=115#3
[CA] Save Our State Returns to Baldwin Park
Pasadena Star-News / May 6, 2007
About 350 protesters screamed accusations of racism at each other over a
line of riot police at a rally where members of Save Our State and the
Minutemen carried signs that read, "Can't feed 'em, don't breed 'em."
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[AZ] Border Minefield Advocate Disrupts City Council Meeting
Arizona Republic / May 8, 2007
Mesa City Council members hustled from the chamber under police protection
as J.T. Ready, who advocates laying mines on the border, shouted at the
mayor for not allowing Ready to testify.
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For the week of May 8, 2007
[AL] Alabama Militia Members Accused of Plotting Machine-Gun Attack
FOX News / May 1, 2007
Five members of the Alabama Free Militia were denied bond after a federal
agent testified they planned a machine-gun attack on Mexicans in a small
town just north of Birmingham.
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[MD] Arsonist Sets Fire to Day Labor Center
Washington Post / May 5, 2007
Fire investigators reported that someone used ignitable liquid to set fire
to a controversial temporary worker center near Gaithersburg that opened
last month.
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[CA] 'Shooting Snakes' With the Campo Minutemen
Orange County Register / May 3, 2007
In a two-part series, a columnist delves into the motivations and
operations of the full-time hard-core Minutemen on the border in Campo,
California.
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[AZ] 'Border Activist' Launches E-Mail Campaign Against Mesa Detective
Arizona Republic /
May 4, 2007
Anti-immigration activist J.T. Ready, who recently attended a neo-Nazi
festival, accused Det. Matt Browning of slander for testifying about links
between the anti-immigration movement and attacks on Mexicans by racist
skinheads.
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[OH] Minuteman Leader Scheduled To Speak at University of Cincinnati
The Cincinnati Enquirer / May 7, 2007
Minuteman Civil Defense Corps President Chris Simcox
agreed to give a lecture sponsored by the University of Cincinnati College
Republicans.
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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:
*** '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.
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*** 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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