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With immigration perhaps America's most volatile issue, a troubling backlash has erupted among its most fervent foes. There are, of course, the Minutemen, the self-appointed border vigilantes who operate in several states. And now groups of militiamen, white supremacists and neo-Nazis are using resentment over the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants in the U.S. as a potent rallying cry. "The immigration furor has been critical to the growth we've seen" in hate groups, says Mark Potok, head of the Intelligence Project at the Southern Poverty Law Center. The center counts some 800 racist groups operating...
...Massachusetts on Saturday afternoon in Amherst, Mass. Last spring’s squad won just one game outside of Jordan Field, but the team sees this loss as hardly a pattern, given last weekend’s victory over Stony Brook in New York and the fact that the Minutemen had not fallen at home since March 2004. “It’s a tough place to win on the road,” captain Jake Samuelson said. “I wouldn’t say this game is a sign we’re in huge...
...face hostile communities characterized by racial profiling and sporadic immigration raids, among other pressures. While some have family members here, most find themselves alone and homeless, unable to work legally and prone to exploitation, constantly in fear of being trapped by immigration officials or groups such as the infamous Minutemen. Even those who seek to obtain their permanent residency in the United States inevitably face a burdensome amount of resistance from the Department of Homeland Security, facing a procedure that spans an average of 14 years. Because they were not born in the U.S., undocumented immigrants are denied the rights...
...Navy warships motored into international waters off the coast of Yemen to aid in the search for Al Qaeda escapees, President George W. Bush stood before paintings of Revolutionary War Minutemen Thursday and touted the success of international cooperation in the war on terror. In his speech to the National Guard Association in Washington, Bush revealed new details about a foiled 2002 Al Qaeda plan to use "shoe bombs" to hijack a commercial airplane and fly it into the tallest building on the West Coast - a Los Angeles skyscraper that intelligence analysts later determined was the Library Tower, now named...
Thank you for the informativearticles on U.S. immigration policy [Dec. 5]. Although I believe the government needs to reform the system, I disagree with the tactics of the Minutemen [the vigilantes who patrol the borders and demonstrate against immigrants at day-labor centers]. Perhaps the Minutemen could better channel their energies by finding U.S. citizens willing to perform the jobs that illegal immigrants are doing and assisting those Americans in getting such jobs. JAMES GATES Lake Worth...