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Congressman addresses Minuteman rally
About 50 people rallied against illegal immigration on Saturday at an event in Des Moines sponsored by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a citizen watchdog group that favors tighter controls on the nation’s borders.
Minuteman chapter forms in central Florida
John James can’t pinpoint the exact moment that triggered him to form a local chapter of the Minuteman Project. Instead, it was more like a growing sense of frustration.
Minuteman PAC finances questioned
A political action committee created by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, whose financial accountability has been challenged by MCDC members, has spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to support Republican candidates — much of it through private companies with ties to conservative activist Alan Keyes. […]
Protesters target Portland day-labor site
[…] About 20 protesters from the groups Oregonians for Immigration Reform and the Oregon chapter of the national Minuteman Civil Defense Corps carried video cameras and recorded license plates of cars and trucks stopping at the corner of Southeast Sixth Avenue and Burnside Street.
Arizona lawmaker spreads white supremacist essay
A week after Rep. Russell Pearce drew fire for immigration remarks many called racially insensitive, the Mesa Republican sent an e-mail to supporters in which he copied an article from a white separatist group and a link to that group’s Web site. […]
University students ‘storm the stage’ at Gilchrist lecture
Students stormed the stage at Columbia University’s Roone auditorium yesterday, knocking over chairs and tables and attacking Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the Minutemen, a group that patrols the border between America and Mexico.
Proposed housing ordinance sparks hostile protest
A voice over the bullhorn led chants in Spanish, yelling “aqui estamos y no nos vamos” — “we are here and we are not leaving” — as hundreds gathered to protest an ordinance targeting illegal immigrants. [...]
Lawmaker heads group that ‘demonizes immigrants’
State representative Mike Lott is the executive director of he Mississippi Federation for Immigration Reform and Enforcement, a “racist attack against the Hispanic community.”
Ex-Minuteman forms Texas Border Volunteers
The former leader of the Texas branch of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps said Wednesday that he and other members split from the national watchdog group last month to form their own private patrol organization opposing illegal immigration: the Texas Border Volunteers.
Orange County scales back enforcement plan
Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona will be allowed to train 15 deputies to conduct immigration checks in the county’s jail under a tentative agreement between the county and the federal government.