Guest Column
IMMIGRATION WATCH
An e-newsletter monitoring extremism and the
anti-immigration movement
For the week of September 12, 2006
[NJ] Demonstrators give Nazi salutes, chant "Go Home!"
The Wall Street Journal / September 6, 2006
Framing illegal immigration as a national security issue has given new life
to fringe movements in Riverside and elsewhere.
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[TX] "Operation Sovereignty" begins
Houston Chronicle / September 10, 2006
The Minuteman Project, the Texas Minutemen and American Border Patrol plan
to conduct a joint border watch for eight weeks near Laredo.
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[OK] Minutemen rally in Tulsa
KOTV News / September 4, 2006
More than 200 members and supporters of the Tulsa Minuteman Project rallied
on Labor Day to protest "the losing of American jobs to illegal labor."
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[AZ] Barnett lawsuit moves toward trial
The Sierra Vista Herald / September 11, 2006
Ronald Morales alleges border vigilante Roger Barnett threatened him and
three children with an AR-15 assault rifle on state land in 2004.
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[AZ] Proposition 405 yanked from ballot
The Arizona Republic / September 9, 2006
A proposal to require Phoenix police officers to act as federal immigration
agents fell
600 signatures short of qualifying for the November election.
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