Category: Nativist Extremist

Patriots Border Alliance Accused of Lies and Neo-Nazi Ties

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Anti-Semitic, Nativist Extremist, Neo-Nazi by David Holthouse on May 8, 2008

It’s been a bad month at Black Rock for the Patriots Border Alliance, a border vigilante group formed last year by disgruntled former Minuteman Civil Defense Corps officials.
First Phoenix New Times blogger Stephen Lemons unearthed a photo of Patriots Border Alliance leaders and members posing with a wheelchair-bound Elton Hall, a septuagenarian neo-Nazi and past [...]

Racist British National Party Wins Seat on London Assembly

Posted in Anti-Black, Anti-Gay, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Muslim, Nativist Extremist, Uncategorized by Casey Sanchez on May 6, 2008

On May 1, the racist British National Party (BNP) won a seat on the 25-member London Assembly, which has the power to amend the London mayor’s budget and investigate and publish findings on matters of interest to Londoners. Richard Barnbrook, who will take the BNP seat after coming in fifth in the mayoral race and [...]

New Embarrassments Face San Diego Minutemen

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Nativist Extremist by Brentin Mock on April 23, 2008

It’s shaping up to be a rough month for the aggressively confrontational San Diego Minutemen (SDMM) and their leader Jeff Schwilk (below, right).
Last week, the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation released a report exposing SDMM internal E-mails dating back to June 2006 in which SDMM members repeatedly refer to immigrants in dehumanizing terms, including “cockroaches” [...]

Nativists Leap on Wrong Bandwagon — Again

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Extremist Propaganda, Nativist Extremist by Brentin Mock on April 15, 2008

The story from Athens, Texas, read like it was custom-tailored for anti-immigration propaganda: A 13-year-old white girl at Athens Middle School attacked and threatened with rape and murder by a gang of 21 Latino students, only because she completed a class assignment to “create a protest sign” of her choice by making a placard that [...]

Immigration Report Being Released Today Linked to White Supremacists


Last Friday, a highly conservative publication called Investor’s Business Daily (IBD) published an editorial on its website called “The Real Cost of Immigration” that previewed a report to be released today at the National Press Club — an analysis, as IBD noted, by one Edwin S. Rubenstein that is being published by The Social Contract [...]

Nativist Leader Cited For Indecent Exposure

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Nativist Extremist by David Holthouse on March 13, 2008

March has certainly come in like a lion for “Buffalo” Rick Galeener. It’s been a rip-roarin’ month so far for the professional singing cowboy-turned-co-founder of Riders United for a Sovereign America, or Riders USA, a Phoenix-based immigrant-bashing motorcycle gang.
Last week, Galeener was profiled in the new issue of the Intelligence Report as one of the [...]

Lou Dobbs: Once More, With Gusto

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Media Extremism, Nativist Extremist by Mark Potok on February 6, 2008

The wild man of CNN was unleashed again the other night, launching into a furious attack (here, here and here) on the president of the National Council of La Raza, who went on “Lou Dobbs Tonight” to discuss her organization’s new initiative against hate. The initiative — motto: “Take the hate out of the immigration [...]

News Update: Fire, Feces and Freeways

Posted in Anti-Gay, Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Hate Groups, Klan, Nativist Extremist, White Supremacist by Casey Sanchez on January 31, 2008

FIRE IN THE HOLE: The double-wide mobile home of imprisoned Klan leader Charles Barefoot, who was recently declared incompetent to stand trial for allegedly arranging the murder of a fellow Klansman, burned to the ground on Tuesday in Dunn, N.C. “When I got home, ammunition was exploding everywhere and flames were shooting through the roof [...]

Minutemen Crow as State OKs Cleanup at Border Checkpoint

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Nativist Extremist by Heidi Beirich on January 25, 2008

California’s Department of Transportation (Caltrans) has approved an application by the in-your-face San Diego Minutemen (SDMM) group, which the Southern Poverty Law Center lists as a “nativist extremist” group, to “adopt” a stretch of highway for cleanup on I-5. That might not be so extraordinary — if it weren’t for the fact that the section [...]

Controversial Official Leaves FAIR

Posted in Anti-Immigrant, Anti-Latino, Hate Groups, Nativist Extremist by Heidi Beirich on January 8, 2008

In late December, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) reportedly let go Joseph Turner, its western region representative, who had been hired just 13 months earlier, in November 2006. Calls to Turner and FAIR officials seeking an explanation for Turner’s unannounced departure were not returned, but a Hatewatch call to the FAIR switchboard asking [...]

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