Sonia Scherr
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Columnist on White Nationalist Website Appears on Fox News
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 27, 2010 - 9:02 am
Posted in anti-immigrant | No comments
A columnist for the white nationalist website VDARE appeared as a guest on Fox News this week.
As Media Matters reported, Allan Wall, a longtime VDARE contributor, spoke with Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy on Monday about immigration. Doocy introduced Wall as a U.S. citizen who lived in Mexico for 17 years while teaching English. [...]
Racist Skins Renounce Busted IKA Leader
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 24, 2010 - 1:52 pm
Posted in Klan, skinheads | No comments
Poor Ron Edwards. Even racist skinheads don’t want to hang out with the former Klan leader.
Edwards — the Imperial Klans of America (IKA) founder who defended himself against a successful lawsuit filed by the Southern Poverty Law Center — was arrested last week on federal drug charges, including methamphetamine distribution.
That was too much for the [...]
IKA Boss’ Latest Travail: Drug Trafficking Charges
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 21, 2010 - 3:08 pm
Posted in Extremist Crime, Klan | No comments
The founder of a once-thriving Klan group has recently battled a major lawsuit, money woes and, now, federal drug charges.
Ron Edwards, the 50-year-old former leader of the Imperial Klans of America (IKA), appeared in U.S. District Court in Owensboro, Ky., today on charges of possession with intent to distribute and distribution of controlled substances, including [...]
Anti-Immigration ‘Labor’ Group Misleads on Job Loss
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 19, 2010 - 4:59 am
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A front group for several nativist organizations is airing television ads in Arizona that link undocumented immigrants to high unemployment.
The Coalition for the Future American Worker is trying to capitalize on momentum from the harsh new Arizona law targeting undocumented immigrants, according to a news release from coalition member Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS). The [...]
Strange Bedfellows See Affirmative Action in Beauty Contest
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 18, 2010 - 1:36 pm
Posted in Anti-Arab, Anti-Muslim | No comments
Does an ardent Jewish neo-conservative ever agree with an anti-Semite who despises neo-conservatives?
We didn’t think so, until the Miss USA contest showed that Muslim-bashing author Daniel Pipes and racist radio host James Edwards do indeed share some common ground. The men suggested on their respective blogs that 24-year-old Rima Fakih of Dearborn, Mich., captured the [...]
Fringe Nativist Sees Conspiracy in Murder Charge
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 14, 2010 - 1:05 pm
Posted in Extremist Crime, anti-immigrant | No comments
Laine Lawless, the Mexican flag-burning leader of the vigilante group Border Guardians, has been one of the few anti-immigration leaders to support accused nativist killer Shawna Forde.
Soon, those who can’t get enough of justiceforshawnaforde.com, Lawless’ unabashedly pro-Forde website, will be able to read her book about the case. The soon-to-be-released Blonde on the Border: The [...]
Remembering Law Enforcement Victims of Right-Wing Extremists
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 12, 2010 - 12:52 pm
Posted in Extremist Crime | No comments
More law enforcement officers were killed last year by right-wing extremists than in any other year since the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing.
Six officers were slain in 2009 by those subscribing to far-right views, making the first year of Obama’s presidency the deadliest since 1995 for extremist attacks against police officers. The fallen officers are among [...]
Fox Uses Dubious Stats to Demonize Undocumented Immigrants
originally posted by Sonia Scherr for Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center [click here]
May 6, 2010 - 12:44 pm
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Fox News made the alarming claim this morning that 2,158 Americans are murdered every year by undocumented immigrants.
Problem is, it’s almost certainly wrong.
In response to our request for comment, a Fox News spokeswoman said she would look into precisely where that number came from. (We will update this post when we hear from her.) However, [...]
Anti-Semitic Pub Cribs Copy from ‘Elite-Controlled Big Media Monopoly’
May 6, 2010 - 7:53 am
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American Free Press, the anti-Semitic weekly that bills itself as “America’s Last Real Newspaper,” insists that it is battling a mainstream media secretly in the thrall of powerful globalists.
A statement on its website screams “THE MEDIA IS THE ENEMY.” It continues: “That’s why American Free Press is right here on Capitol Hill taking up the [...]
Arizona Debate Unleashes New ‘Reconquista’ Accusations
May 5, 2010 - 12:17 pm
Posted in Nativist Extremist, anti-immigrant | No comments
As the debate intensifies over Arizona’s harsh new law aimed at undocumented immigrants, nativist groups are claiming that opponents of the measure support nothing less than the reconquest of the Southwest by Mexicans.
Though the myth of “la reconquista” — a purported secret Mexican conspiracy to take back part of the United States — has long [...]