Guest Column
IMMIGRATION WATCH
- IMMIGRATION WATCH
An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the anti-immigration movement
For the week of July 10, 2007
- [US] Angry Ex-Minutemen Organize New Border Watch Group
Washington Times / July 6, 2007
Former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leaders who were fired by MCDC president Chris Simcox in May for questioning his financial accountability have re-grouped as Patriots' Border Alliance.
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[CA] Day Labor Site Confrontations Drain Police Resources
San Diego Union-Tribune / July 1, 2007
Frequent heated face-offs between members of the San Diego Minutemen and human rights activists are forcing law enforcement agencies to assign extra officers to keep the peace at day labor pick-up sites.
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[US] Anti-Immigration Leaders Reach Out to Black Americans
Daily Chronicle / July 2, 2007
Increasing numbers of white conservative activists are publicly accusing immigrants of stealing jobs from poorly educated black men.
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[CA] Police Official Explains Decision to Halt Rally
Daily Sundial / July 6, 2007
Deputy Chief Charles Breck told Los Angeles police commissioners that he prevented a scheduled anti-immigration rally from taking place because violence between Minutemen and counter-demonstrators seemed certain to erupt.
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For the week of July 3, 2007
[TX] Two Hundred Rally for Release of
Border Patrol Agents
San Antonio Express-News / July 1, 2007
U.S. Border Watch and the Texas chapter of the Minutemen Civil
Defense Corps sponsored a tense "Free Compean/Ramos" rally fraught
with racial undertones and threats of violence.
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[WA] "Illegal Immigration Summit" Draws 100
The (Everett) Herald / July 1, 2007
Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist delivered the keynote
address at a six-hour forum organized by Minutemen American
Defense and The Reagan Wing.
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[US] Truth Takes a Beating in Immigration Debate
The New Zealand Herald / June 30, 2007
The debate over immigration reform is clouded by false accusations
and deliberately misleading studies.
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[US] Columnist: African Americans Should Beware of Immigrant
Bashing
The Courier-Journal / June 28, 2007
"Why would anyone believe the same cabal that has actively worked
against black interests suddenly is deeply concerned about
protecting the interests of black workers?"
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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.
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*** 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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