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NC Sheriffs Use Justice Dept Funds to Attend FAIR Border School

North Carolina Sheriffs Terry Johnson (R-Alamance) and Sam Page (R-Rockingham) found a way around the denial of federal reimbursement funds for a “border school” in El Paso, Texas run by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), according to documents … Continued

Cross-Post: FAIR Misleads Sheriffs, Says ‘Border School’ OK’d by Feds

Targeting law enforcement for “lobbying” and influence has long been a goal of the Tanton Network and its various leadership. For example, Jessica Vaughan, Director of Policy Studies at the Tanton Network’s pseudo think-tank, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), … Continued

Former YWC Leadership Attends Council of Conservative Citizens Gathering

  Matthew Heimbach, former head of the now abolished–for racist graffitti, etc–Towson University chapter of Youth for Western Civilization, was full of piss and vinegar and nearly overflowing with giggles when he spoke to the Southern Nationalist Network (SNN) on … Continued

Politics

Cross-Post: Hatewatch’s Annual Smackdown Awards

Originally posted by Hatewatch on December 20th 2011. Another year, another horror. As we close out another 12 months of mayhem, criminal violence and just plain stupidity on the radical right, it’s time, once again, to compile our annual year-end … Continued

Immigration

Youth for Western Civilization: a National Conference of Old Hatred

by Michael Dranove The growth of Youth for Western Civilization (YWC) may have been stunted when in 2007 their then vice president, Marcus Epstein, plead guilty to a class 6 felony hate crime, as such leadership would make any rational … Continued

Politics

Bigots on the Radio

“They say you better listen to the voice of reason But they don’t give you any choice ’cause they think that it’s treason So you had better do as you are told You better listen to the radio . . … Continued

Politics

Southern Poverty Law Center Releases Report on State Legislators for Legal Immigration

Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a new report titled, “Attacking the Constitution State Legislators for Legal Immigration & the Anti-Immigrant Movement.” The report focuses on twelve members of State Legislators for Legal Immigration (SLLI), a coalition of … Continued

Immigration

Babies of Vulnerable Immigrant Women Taken Away

A recent lawsuit involving state agencies and a baby wrongly taken from an immigrant mother exposes the injustices that occur when power, privilege and immigration collide. The lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center on Aug. 12, 2010 alleges … Continued

Center for Immigration Studies Plays with Numbers and Bigotry

British statesman George Canning once said, “I can prove anything by statistics – except the truth.” It seems anti-immigrant organization the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) believes the opposite, that reality will always lie in how they spin the “truths” … Continued

Report Proves Anti-Immigrant Network Tied to Racist Extremism

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released a report today exhaustively exploring the links between FAIR, Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA. And not just their relationships with one another, either, but their associations with racist hardliners and political … Continued