Hatewatch Tweets
Hatewatch is managed by the staff of the Intelligence Report, an investigative magazine published by the Alabama-based civil rights group Southern Poverty Law Center.
Minuteman leaders speak in Herndon
After a day of rallying for stricter immigration enforcement in D.C., the national leaders of the Minuteman Project headed out to Herndon to talk to supporters here.
Latinos rally against racial profiling
Three-year-old Roberto Carlos Montes cried when his parents told him to get out of the car to join a Hispanic rally in front of the state Capitol. He was afraid of the big men across the street, waving big U.S. flags, who had yelled at him “Go Home!”
Protesters intimidate I.D. card applicants
Official says Oregonians for Immigration Reform used tactics that amounted to intimidation at an immigration protest outside the Mexican consulate in Eugene.
Nazis crash Minuteman rally
About 100 supporters of the Minuteman Project rallied on the West Lawn of the Capitol yesterday morning, imploring the government to tighten the nation’s borders and reject guest-worker legislation.
Granny Brigade goes to Washington
…Mercer, 51, a petite grandmother, had come to Washington for last week’s Capitol Hill rally by the Minuteman Project, an activist group that wants to seal the nation’s borders against illegal immigration and torpedo President Bush’s proposed guest-worker program for illegals. Locally, a Minuteman chapter has tracked immigrants at a site where day laborers gather in Herndon, Va…
The Nativists
One of them says he’d like to bring nuclear weapons to the border. Another vows to stop the alleged Mexican invasion of Idaho. Several have links to white supremacist hate groups; others are given to dire warnings of horrible diseases, “barbaric” practices, and secret Latino conspiracies to “reconquer” the American Southwest. These are the nativists — the new crop of activists who are driving the movement that exploded last spring with the Minuteman Project in Arizona, a month-long effort by armed civilians to seal the border with Mexico. Along with a whole array of media enablers they have barged into the nation’s consciousness with remarkable success. Some of them, like Minuteman co-founder Jim Gilchrist, have made attempts to win high political office. Others have contented themselves with trying to build a mass movement. Not all those who have joined the movement are extremists — many are legitimately concerned about the ability of the nation to absorb large numbers of immigrants, particularly the undocumented. But one thing seems clear: A dangerous mix of nativist intolerance, armed and untrained civilians, and wild-eyed conspiracy theories could easily explode into violence…
Nativism On Air
Radio personality Roger Hedgecock made his way to the front of the Holiday Inn conference room, surveyed the standing-room-only crowd and smiled broadly. Among the 400 people attending the first organizational meeting of the “Hold Their Feet to the Fire” anti-immigration gathering held in Washington, D.C., last April were 250 Hedgecock fans who had purchased tour packages and flown together from San Diego for the week-long lobbying blitz…
Lou Dobbs’ Broken Record
Lou Dobbs is a genial sort, a pleasant-faced CNN anchorman who regularly presents himself as standing up for American working men and women against those who would injure them. Hosting “Lou Dobbs Tonight” for a prime-time hour every weekday, he is also well known and powerful. So when Dobbs focuses on an issue, millions of Americans learn just what it is that Dobbs thinks they should know.
Arizona ponders trespass law
Faced with mounting election-year public pressure to curtail illegal immigration, Arizona lawmakers are trying to expand state trespassing law to enable local authorities to arrest illegal border crossers…
Delaware candidate defends racial profiling
John Jaremchuk, a Republican whose controversial ordinance was defeated by council in May, said he’s making illegal immigration the centerpiece of a campaign for state representative for the 13th District…