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Hatewatch Texas town considers crackdown November 07, 2006 Hatewatch Staff This Dallas suburb could soon become the first Texas city to adopt a sweeping ordinance intended to keep out illegal immigrants. Read full article
Arturo Morales began to sob as he told jurors how he tried to console his young granddaughter and her friend as a furious Roger Barnett, handgun holstered at his side, told them to get off his property or he would start shooting. Read full article
The tension between Caucasian residents of Marshalltown and their Hispanic neighbors has been aggravated after a raid Tuesday showed what many people already suspected: Scores of people who entered the United States illegally were working here. Read full article
Four members of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a border-watch group opposed to illegal immigration, picketed a state transportation conference in Des Moines Thursday, claiming it promoted a superhighway linking the U.S. with Mexico and Canada. Read full article
The SPLC has collected 1,372 reported bias incidents between the day after the election and February 7. These incidents were either reported directly to the SPLC via our #ReportHate intake page or collected from news reports.
The Department of Homeland Security is wrongly keeping from Congress an investigative report that details the conduct of two ex-Border Patrol agents imprisoned this week for shooting a Mexican drug trafficker, two Houston-area congressmen charged Thursday. Read full article
Hatewatch Pahrump Minutemen hold first meeting February 06, 2007 Hatewatch Staff Pahrump's Minutemen held their first meeting Saturday, Jan. 27 and are eager for supporters. Read full article
The world is upside down. A posse of Republican lawmakers who, when opposing amnesty for illegal immigrants, like to talk about how rules must be followed and how we shouldn't reward lawbreakers. They're now demanding that a pair of convicted felons be rewarded with a presidential pardon. Read full article
A member of an anti-illegal immigration group filed a complaint with the San Diego County grand jury Thursday in response to what he described as a failure by the San Diego Police Department to adequately respond to an incident of prostitution and human trafficking in migrant camps near McGonigle Canyon, an area where hundreds of migrant workers were evicted last year. Read full article
A judge rejected Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist's request to be immediately reinstated as president of the group and ruled that the board members who fired Gilchrist cannot spend donations pending a civil trial. Read full article
San Diego Legal Observer Coalition activist Joanne Yoon filed a $1 million lawsuit against San Diego Minutemen founder Jeff Schwilk for repeatedly describing Yoon in racist and vulgar terms in online postings. Read full article
Hatewatch Police search San Diego Minutemen leader’s home March 27, 2007 Hatewatch Staff Police searched the home of Jeff Schwilk for evidence linking Schwilk to vandalism attacks at migrant worker camps. Read full article
Hatewatch Minuteman Project tries to shake racist image April 10, 2007 Hatewatch Staff Minuteman Project leaders are attempting to distance themselves from white supremacy organizations. Read full article
A simmering illegal-immigration debate at the University of Texas at San Antonio— where 45 percent of students are Hispanic — erupted into a heated protest Wednesday during an outdoor speech by Chris Simcox, founder of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, a group of volunteers who patrol the Mexican border to stop immigrants from entering the country illegally. […] Read full article
A controversial figure in the illegal immigration debate whose recent visits to college campuses have sparked protests and arrests will speak at the University of Cincinnati this week. Read full article
Hatewatch Immigration Rally Shoving Match Leads to Weapons Raid May 15, 2007 Hatewatch Staff Police said they arrested Tyler J. Froatz Jr., 24, after he got into a shoving match with supporters at an immigration rally. Read full article
The top leaders of the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps have been terminated by the group's president, Chris Simcox, for requesting a meeting to discuss a lack of financial accountability by the organization's leadership. Read full article
A man who mortgaged his home in order to help the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps build border fencing on private land in Cochise County is suing the group and its president, Chris Simcox, for fraud and breach of contract. Read full article
Hatewatch Dobbs continues to defend false report on leprosy June 20, 2007 Hatewatch Staff CNN's Lou Dobbs continues to defend and affirm a false statistic about immigrants and leprosy. Read full article
Hatewatch Minuteman Maces Catholic Church Supporter July 24, 2007 Hatewatch Staff An anti-illegal immigration protest at St. Peter's Catholic Church that began peacefully early Saturday morning ended with a violent confrontation between two men. Read full article