Immigration Control

Hooded Sweatshirts, Shopping Carts, & Walking to Work: How to Profile an Undocumented Person, via the Ozarks Minutemen

In Springfield, Missouri, the Ozarks Minutemen suggest that “illegal aliens” can be identified by their “use of shopping carts to transport goods or carrying groceries long distances, store to home.”  Other identifiers include walking to work, walking with your head … Continued

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Conservation Foundations Funding Anti-Immigrant Groups?

Environmental funders should not participate in the funding of the anti-immigrant movement.  The Weeden Foundation for instance funds both the anti-immigrant movement and environmental groups. 

Immigration

Center for Immigration Studies and the Arizona border

We have recently received requests from readers asking that we clarify details surrounding a group called Center for Immigration Studies and its activities in Arizona. Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) was founded in 1985 as a project directly under the … Continued

Immigration

Cross- Post: Is Immigration a Green Issue?

Sami Grover wrote a great article for Treehugger highlighting the issues explored in Center for New Community’s new video, The Green War on Immigrants TreeHugger is a blog about environmentalism, not racism, ethnicity or immigration. Yet from holocaust deniers at … Continued

International

Crosspost: French Police Bulldoze Immigrant Camp

The article below “French police bulldoze immigrant camp near Calais” by Nicolas Garriga of Associated Press details the destruction of an immigrant camp in France known as ‘The Jungle’.  Does it not freakishly resemble Neill Blomkamp’s film, District 9? By … Continued

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