HispanicVista Columnists

An e-newsletter monitoring extremism in the anti-immigration movement
For the week of November 20, 2007

[UT] Utah Minutemen Protest Library Exhibit
Deseret Morning News / November 13, 2007
Utah Minuteman Project leader Eli Cawley called a photo exhibit documenting the April 2006 "Dignity March" unfair to Minutemen and "just another attempt on the part of some compassion mongers to elicit sympathy for the illegal aliens."
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=144

[WA] Hamilton Farms Billboard Targets Mexicans
The Chronicle / November 16, 2007
The proprietor of a famous billboard along I-5 stirred controversy by changing it to read, "NO MEXICAN OLYMPIC TEAMS? ALL THE RUNNERS AND SWIMMERS ARE HERE!"
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=144#2

[MI] Simcox Speaks At Michigan State University
Detroit Free Press / November 14, 2007
The leader of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps spoke to a friendly audience of about three dozen students and Minuteman supporters at a lecture organized by the Michigan State University chapter of Young Americans for Freedom.
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[CA] Cal State Long Beach Students Walkout During Gilchrist Lecture
Daily 49er / November 14, 2007
An auditorium that was filled to capacity with 200 students at the beginning of a speech by Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist held fewer than 50 after most of the audience members staged a walkout.
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=144#4

For the week of November 13, 2007

[AZ] Simcox Promised 'Israeli-Style' Barrier, Delivered 'Cow Fence'
CNN / November 7, 2007
Almost two years after Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leader Chris Simcox began soliciting untold donations for a "high-tech" border barrier, his group has completed nothing but a barbed-wire cattle fence.
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=143

[TN] Leadership Institute Funds Simcox Lectures
The Tennessean / November 5, 2007
The Leadership Institute, a non-profit organization that trains conservatives to work in government and the media, paid for Minuteman leader Chris Simcox to lecture and recruit at two universities.
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=143#2

[TX] 'Border Watch' Volunteers Target Day Laborers
Houston Chronicle / November 6, 2007
Every Saturday more than 20 members of U.S. Border Watch, some wearing military-style uniforms and combat boots, conduct surveillance of day laborers in a gas station parking lot.
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[AZ] Off-Duty Deputies Hired To Intimidate Immigrants
Arizona Republic / November 5, 2007
Phoenix business owners are hiring off-duty Maricopa County Sheriff's Department deputies to chase away Mexican day laborers and corn vendors.
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=143#4

[CA] Gilchrist Scheduled To Speak At Cal State Long Beach
Daily 49er / November 5, 2007
Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and two "surprise" speakers are scheduled to speak Nov. 13 as guests of the Conservative Student Union at Cal State Long Beach.
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For the week of November 6, 2007

[USA] Right-Wing Nativists Tap Into Post-9/11 Anxiety
Baltimore Sun / October 31, 2007
Groups like the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) are manipulating public opinion in favor of racist and unconstitutional local ordinances by framing immigration as a national security issue.
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=142

[TX] Minuteman Leader Speaks In San Antonio
San Antonio Express-News / October 29, 2007
Students chanting, "Racist, fascist, go away!" interrupted a speech by Minuteman Civil Defense Corps president Chris Simcox at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=142#2

[NJ] Nativist Mayor Caught Hiring Illegal Immigrants
New York Times / October 28, 2007
Bogota, N.J. Mayor Steven Lonegan, who made headlines last summer by decrying a McDonald's billboard printed in Spanish, admitted hiring two illegal immigrants to assemble signs for the conservative group Americans for Prosperity.
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[OK] Minutemen Shout 'Go Home' At Demonstrators
The Oklahoman / November 1, 2007
Self-proclaimed Minutemen drove a truck by and yelled at a crowd of more than 1,000 demonstrators protesting HB 1804, a harsh new immigration law that went into effect in Oklahoma Nov. 1.
>> splcenter.org/intel/news/item.jsp?aid=142#4

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.
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.

HREF="http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/aBEnq0FNuiR0L1h0DnER0AF">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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