SPLC - Nativist News for August 14, 2007

HATEWATCH: NATIVIST NEWS
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An e-newsletter monitoring extremism in the anti-immigration movement


For the week of August 14, 2007
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[BLOG] Video Purports to Show Vigilante Border Murder
Hatewatch / August 13, 2007
A chilling video obtained by Intelligence Report appears to show a
vigilante shooting to death a Mexican immigrant.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FRnE0AW

[BLOG] Mountain Minutemen Leader Promotes Second Border Shooting Video
Hatewatch / August 10, 2007
Robert Crooks, founder of the Mountain Minutemen, circulated a video
that appears to show a Minuteman shouting threats and firing a shotgun
at border-crossers.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FRnF0AX

[CA] California Minuteman Leader Denounces All Immigration - Legal and
Illegal
The Porterville Recorder / August 10, 2007
Carl Braun, executive director of the California chapter of Minuteman
Civil Defense Corps, told a Republican women's club: "By 2015 we will
be a third world nation... We must stop both legal and illegal
immigration or our nation as we know it will end."
>> http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FRnG0AY

[NJ] United Patriots of America Continues Surveillance
The Record and Herald News / August 12, 2007
Members of the United Patriots of America staked out and photographed
a day labor pick-up corner the UPA has targeted for more than a year.
>> http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FRnH0AZ

[IL] Talk Shows Inflame Immigration Debate
Chicago Sun-Times / August 7, 2007
Chicago Minuteman Project director Rick Biesada is just one of many
conservative talk radio hosts using their airtime to fire up
the immigration debate.
>> http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FRnI0Aa


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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.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FA1y0A5

*** 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.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0EqW70AP

*** 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.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FA1z0A6

*** 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.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0FA110As

*** Deadly Force ***
A profile of Roy Warden, a hard-line anti-immigration activist who
routinely threatens Latinos with death.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0EqW60AO

*** The Nativists ***
A survey of hardliners who are fanning the flames of anti-immigration
extremism.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0EsF30A5

*** The Little Prince ***
An investigative profile of Minuteman Civil Defense Corps leader Chris
Simcox.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0EGIZ0A3

*** Playing Rough ***
Profiles of some of the more than 40 anti-immigration vigilante
outfits formed in the first six months after the Minuteman Project.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0DnER0AU

*** Open Season ***
A 2003 feature on anti-immigration vigilantes in the pre-Minuteman
era.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0DcOf0An

*** The Battle of Georgiafornia ***
A feature on the hate crime backlash against Hispanic immigrants in
Georgia.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0C6ah0AN

*** Arizona Showdown ***
A feature on the April 2005 Minuteman Project in Arizona.
http://newsletter.splcenter.org/cgi-bin4/DM/y/eBBtf0MfAwp0L1h0DcOg0Ao



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