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James Pinkerton, Mark Potok, Doris Meissner oppose citizen action against illegal immigration - 11/05/2007

James Pinkerton of the Houston Chronicle offers "Taking border battle to the streets" about a local group (U.S. Border Watch) that protests in front of day laborer sites. While it's not as bad as other similar articles, he takes his lead from LBJ: he doesn't call them racists, he just makes them deny it.

The ADL's definition of "hate" and "anti-immigrant" can't be trusted. (ALIPAC, others) - 10/31/2007

... the Intelligence Report of the Southern Poverty Law Center [3] [4]. (The SPLC is, of course, another group that likes to throw the "hate" charge around; perhaps the ADL could call the SPLC a hate group, and the SPLC could respond by calling the ADL a hate group, and then the could both lock arms in battle and fall into the abyss.) Even the Los Angeles Times has noted something similar (...

Morris Dees/SPLC: Lou Dobbs will one day be "depicted like George Wallace" (Don Walton) - 10/23/2007

... a stop by Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (link). We're informed that he's "increasingly focused now on Latino immigrant worker rights". Of course, what he really wants to do is give foreign citizens additional rights.

Center for American Progress' indirect Mexican government link (Henry Fernandez, Kica Matos) - 10/13/2007

... panelists are Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center (a group indirectly linked to the Mexican government) and Devin Burghart from the Center for New Community. Luckily, I scrolled down to the bottom of the page and I saw this: Fernandez lives with his wife Kica Matos and their son in New Haven, Connecticut. Matos is the former head of Junta for Progressive Action, a group that's coll...

Peter Prengaman, Travis Loller spin "reconquista" - 9/07/2007

Peter Prengaman and Travis Loller of the Associated Press offer "Anti-Immigration Forces Warn of Plot" (original AP title). It discusses those that favor some form of "reconquista" and those who oppose them and tries to downplay the influence that those favoring "reconquista" have. On the other hand, it's good to see the AP at least acknowledging that such sentim...

Rachel Uranga/Daily News on "anti-illegal immigrant groups" - 9/02/2007

Ethnic booster/"reporter" Rachel Uranga of the Los Angeles Daily News offers "Ranks of anti-illegal immigrant groups swelling". The title tells you most you need to know: while some of those groups may be "anti-illegal immigrant", others may actually be anti-illegal immigration and have no particular animus towards most of the illegal aliens themeselves.

Book: "Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista" - 7/17/2007

From the SPLC* Review of Books comes news of a book called "Domestic Enemies: The Reconquista": Now, courtesy of former Navy SEAL Matthew Bracken, comes the American version [of Camp of the Saints] - a portrait of the apocalypse Bracken fears will overtake America thanks to undocumented immigration from the south.

Mahalo.com: Hawaiian for "propaganda" - 6/02/2007

mahalo.com is a new "search engine" from Jason Calacanis, formerly head of Weblogs, Inc. It's actually more like a cross between Wikipedia, dmoz.org, about.com, and Squidoo, or something like that. Rather than trying to answer all requests, they're only concentrating on the top 10,000 searches, and then providing pages that supposedly will provide a guide to that topic. Each pa...

David Leonhardt/New York Times: illegal immigration supporting hack - 5/30/2007

... striking back. He also mentions the Southern Poverty Law Center, calling them a "civil rights group" without mentioning that they have an indirect link to the Mexican government. Shouldn't a good journalist disclose such links? And, one of Leonhardt's statements doesn't exactly square with previous NYT coverage. He quotes "James L. Krahenbuhl, the director of the Nat...

Amanda Marcotte can't even get smears straight (Lou Dobbs, SPLC) - 5/23/2007

John Edwards' former blogging star, Amanda Marcotte, offers [1] "Lou Dobbs really, really hates Mexicans": David Neiwert has a follow-up on the issue of Lou Dobbs trotting out numbers on national TV about Mexican nationals spreading leprosy that he got from a white supremacist group that pulled the numbers out of their asses. It's fucking disturbed that this man has a national...

Leftwing illegal immigration supporters still after Lou Dobbs (SPLC) - 5/16/2007

As the immigration "debate" picks up, various leftwing sources are trying to smack down Lou Dobbs in what may be an effort to counteract his opposition to any "reform" or what may be just a general attempt to support illegal immigration. There was, of course, the recent Lesley Stahl/60 Minutes lame hit piece.

100+ Hispanic groups send letter supporting illegal immigration, opposing raids - 5/08/2007

... Defense and Education Fund, and the Southern Poverty Law Center (indirectly linked to the Mexican government). Obviously, a letter that's sent now could simply be repurposed and sent again a year or two after "comprehensive immigration reform" passes. There's no assurance that these groups wouldn't send a similar letter in order to weaken future, "reform"-mandat...

Lesley Stahl/60 Minutes tries lame hit piece on Lou Dobbs - 5/06/2007

Tonight's 60 Minutes featured a profile of Lou Dobbs by Lesley Stahl entitled Lou Dobbs, "Advocacy" Journalist? In the World of CBS, biased reporters - such as the dozens exposed in the entries here as well as Stahl herself, Ed Bradley, and Steve Kroft - are real journalists, but only Dobbs blurs the lines.

Maria Hinojosa/PBS Now interviews Chris Simcox - 5/05/2007

Maria Hinojosa of PBS Now interviews the founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Chris Simcox, here. I didn't listen to the interview, and I have a neutral position on Simcox and his group [1].

Max Blumenthal feverishly uncovers the "anti-immigrant" movement - 5/03/2007

Max Blumenthal - aka "Son of Sid" - was interviewed by Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! about the "anti-immigrant" movement with predictable results: ...there are several components of the anti-immigrant movement in this country, and they're all working very closely together. They have a longstanding program to forcibly remove the twelve million undocumented immigrants in thi...

Ron Brynaert/Raw Story posts Tancredo smear - 4/02/2007

... of the South, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a 'neo-Confederate hate group.' In a rare moment of clarity, he called his own suggestion that he run for president 'idiotic.'" Brynaert was last noticed by me downplaying the North American Union, something which every FOIA-obtained document makes clear is a distinct plan by Bush, Commerce Secretary Carlos Gu...

NYT: the ACLU vouches for CAIR - 3/14/2007

Neil MacFarquhar of the NYT offers a two-screener about unnamed sources running down CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations). That's the organization whose spokesman said in 1993 that he'd like to see the U.S.

Why is CBS 11 KTVT-TV Dallas misleading about immigration reform? - 2/18/2007

Stephanie Lucero of CBS 11 TV out of Dallas offers "Immigration Debate Re-Energizing Hate Groups" concerning the recent Anti-Defamation League (ADL) claiming that KKK membership is up because of the debate over illegal immigration. That may well be true, but - needless to say - Lucero doesn't look into: a) whether this is an attempt by the ADL to smear all those opposed to illegal i...

Tim Gaynor/Reuters: Democrats to save us from "nativists" - 12/26/2006

Tim Gaynor of Reuters offers "Nativists fan flames of U.S. immigration debate". And, it's even worse than the title might indicate.

Stillmore: The Crider/SPLC/MSM plantation - 12/12/2006

Dahleen Glanton of the Chicago Tribune offers no less than four (and maybe more) articles about September's ICE raid of the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Georgia.

Is Michele Marcucci/Oakland Tribune biased? - 12/05/2006

Michele R. Marcucci is a staff writer for the ANG Newspapers Group who appears to be based out of the Oakland Tribune. She offers the long article "Immigration group may not be what they seem". It would be good journalism if she covered all sides of the issue, which she does not. Instead, while she reports on two supposed "nonwhite" groups actually being initiated by - gasp! - ...

Stillmore: Crider Poultry employing homeless, felons instead of illegal aliens - 11/27/2006

In September, ICE raided the Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Georgia, which resulted in hundreds of illegal aliens leaving the city.

NAU apologists - 11/24/2006

[List below updated 12/11/07] Recently, Rep. Tom Tancredo was quoted as saying this: "People have to understand what we're talking about here. The president of the United States is an internationalist... He is going to do what he can to create a place where the idea of America is just that a

Randal Archibold/NYT: illegal immigration-supporting groups are right, "vigilantes" are wrong - 11/24/2006

Randal Archibold of the New York Times offers "A Border Watcher Finds Himself Under Scrutiny", about Arizona rancher Roger Barnett: ...But now, after boasting of having captured 12,000 illegal crossers on land he owns or leases from the state and emerging as one of the earliest and most prominent of the self-appointed border watchers, Mr.

Academic McCarthyism from the SPLC? - 11/15/2006

Say it ain't so! However, consider the case of Kevin MacDonald, a Professor of Psychology at California State Universitya

Southern Poverty Law Center sues ICE over Stillmore immigration raids - 11/01/2006

... On a perhaps related note, the Southern Poverty Law Center (more on them at that link or here) has at least one indirect link to the Mexican government. From the AP: A civil rights group sued the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency Wednesday, claiming its agents had harassed five U.S. citizens of Mexican descent during raids targeting illegal immigrants in southeast Georgia... The Sou...

Patrik Jonsson promotes illegal immigration in Stillmore, Georgia - 10/03/2006

Patrik Jonsson of the Christian Science Monitor offers "Crackdown on immigrants empties a town and hardens views", which is so highly similar to the story discussed in "Russ Bynum/AP promotes illegal immigration (Stillmore, Georgia)" that I barely need to add anything more: almost everything said about that slab of pro-illegal immigration propaganda applies to the current slab....

Not-so-FreeRepublic.com, Part 2 - 9/28/2006

These Free Republic threads have at least two things in common: freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709042/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709051/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709076/posts freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1709036/posts The first commonality is that they're all in FR's "f-chat" section, which, as it sounds, is for "chatty" things rather than the s...

tooextremeforaz.org (Randy Graf: Too Extreme for Southern Arizona) - 9/27/2006

The latest in a long line of Democratic Party smears is an anti-Randy Graf site at tooextremeforaz.org (that page is actually a frame coming from www.azdem.org/tooextremeforaz). At the bottom, it says it's paid for by the Arizona Democratic Party, but considering the pro-illegal immigration contents it could have been paid for by the GOP.

AP ignores Peter Schey Mexican government links (Border Human Rights Working Group) - 8/24/2006

... Rights Project (McAllen, TX) Southern Poverty Law Center (Montgomery, AL) Texas RioGrande Legal Aid Derechos Humanos is working with the Mexican government. So is the CHRCL. So, MALDEF, the ACLU and the SPLC are associated with at least two groups openly working with the Mexican government.

Georgia illegal aliens protest organized by former Mexican consul - 3/24/2006

[See the first update for more] Tim Molloy of the AP offers a roundup of the recent protest by illegal aliens who are demanding rights to which they aren't entitled in the falsely-titled "Immigration Rallies Draw Thousands Nationwide".

Brad Knickerbocker of the CSM: Can you trust his reporting? - 1/22/2006

... of Religion. - Mark Potok of Southern Poverty Law Center Please write CSM senior editor Richard Bergenheim and let him know the CSM has lost several credibility points because of this article.

AP/Arthur H. Rotstein: some of my best friends are Minutemen - 12/20/2005

The AP offers the biased report "Vigilante Anti-Immigration Group Gaining" about the Minuteman Project. A search shows that that's the original AP title, and not the one from Yahoo.

African-American Rep. wants to join Tennessee's White Caucus - 9/28/2005

This article is extremely shocking: NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A black Tennessee lawmaker lamenting his exclusion from the state's White Legislative Caucus claimed Tuesday the group was less accommodating that even the Nation of Islam. "My understanding is that the NoI doesn't even ban members by race," said Rep.

Debbie Schlussel meets the SPLC - 8/27/2005

The Southern Poverty Law Center has responded to a post from her about the Ranch Rescue controversy. You really need to read their reply to believe it.

If far-left domestic terrorism is the greater threat... - 4/18/2005

...then why did the NBC Nightly News mostly concentrate on "right-wing" terrorism? In a story broadcast tonight on domestic terrorism because of the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombing, they discussed both left and right wing domestic terrorism. (Similar story here; the one I saw is from a different "reporter" and is currently video-only). In fact, they even broadcast that left...

Miami Herald "endorses indentured servitude" - 3/23/2004

... suspects: PEOPLE FOR THE AMERICAN WAY SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER Businesses: VLASIC PICKLE GROWERS (OH) U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE U.S. HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE BIRDS EYE FOODS DEERE & COMPANY TYSON FOODS INC. COBANK FIRST PIONEER FARM CREDIT MONROVIA GROWERS (CA, OR, GA, NC) YANKEE FARM CREDIT HARRY SINGH & SONS (CA) John Harris Farms Inc (CA) LASSEN CANYON NURSERY, INC. (CA...

Morris Dees, racist and FBI informant - 1/07/2004

... relating to Morris Dees of the Southern Poverty Law Center: "(Name redacted) telephone call from (name redacted) on or about 4/17/95, two days prior to the OKBOMB attack, when (name redacted) of the SPLC, was in the white supremacist compound at (redacted), Oklahoma, notes the director." The Daily Gazette reports, "References to an informant working for the SPLC at Eloh

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