Cristina Jimenez

Cultivating Extremism

The murder of Raul Flores and his nine-year-old daughter, Brisenia, by Shawna Forde, the leader of Minutemen American Defense (show above), further reveals the anti-immigrant movement's real agenda: promote hate.

Ted Hesson, Long Island Wins blogger, writes:

From the outset of the Minuteman movement, opposition groups have been preaching the dangers of allowing amateurs to take on responsibilities that should only be allotted to trained (and government-sanctioned) border patrol agents. But until this tragedy, many politicians and reporters were content to ignore the Minutemen: just a bunch of gun-crazy loonies who spent too much time in the sun. And it wasn't strange for some prominent conservatives to support Minuteman initiatives.

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Posted at 2:47 PM, Jul 09, 2009 in Immigration
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