The radical right started the year on a roll, with allies in the White House. But then came Charlottesville, and the movement was knocked back on its heels. Still, Trump's rhetoric and the country's changing demographics continue to buoy the movement.
The number of “nativist extremist” groups — organizations that go beyond mere advocacy to personally confront suspected undocumented immigrants or those who hire or help them — dropped again last year, falling from 17 to just 15.
A remarkable level of vitriol has characterized the contest for president. And it’s showing no signs of letting up.
A movement was born this summer during the crisis over migrant children at the border. Are the vigilante extremists back for good?
The anti-immigrant lobby has long enjoyed influence in Washington but in recent years has been forced to defend itself against charges that it represents the narrow interests of white nationalists who fear the “browning” of America.
Influential groups such as the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) that have long fueled the Republican Party’s hard-line stance in the immigration debate have come under fire in recent months from the very conservative movement they have influenced for so long.
Anti-Latino hate crimes in California spiked up by almost 50% last year, the state’s attorney general’s office reported on Aug. 11. The increase, from 81 such crimes in 2009 to 119 in 2010, followed a decade of declines.
U.S. Sen. John McCain, Republican of Arizona, set off a wildfire of his own when he appeared to blame undocumented immigrants for starting about a half-dozen range fires raging in southern Arizona in June, including the massive Wallow fire that has scorched more than 800 square miles.
The murder of a Latino immigrant in an aging Pennsylvania coal town was a tragedy. But was the town in some way responsible?
Border vigilantes charged in the home-invasion murders of a Latino man and his 9-year-old daughter are sentenced to death
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