Posts Tagged ‘anti-immigrant’
 
January 25, 2013 1

FAIR’s Susan Tully Promotes Bigotry and Conspiracies on Radio Show

Susan Tully, the national field direc­tor of the DC-based anti-immigrant group Fed­er­a­tion for Amer­i­can Immi­gra­tion Reform (FAIR) voiced a num­ber of con­spir­acy the­o­ries and made many anti-immigrant com­ments dur­ing an inter­view with a right-wing radio show on Jan­u­ary 17, 2013. Tully spoke for over an hour on “The Ruthie Report,” a show hosted by Ruthie Hendrycks, who runs the anti-immigrant group Min­nesotans Seek­ing Immi­gra­tion Reform (MINNSIR).  On its web­site, FAIR lists MINNSIR as its local affil­i­ate in Minnesota.

Dur­ing the radio inter­view, Tully dis­par­aged DREAM Act-eligible stu­dents for what she called arro­gance and accused Demo­c­ra­tic politi­cians in Cal­i­for­nia of hav­ing ties to Mex­ico. She also claimed that stu­dents are cross­ing the U.S./Mexico bor­der on a daily basis to attend Amer­i­can schools.

When talk­ing about a poten­tial com­pre­hen­sive immi­gra­tion reform bill, Tully argued that there should be a study of peo­ple granted doc­u­mented sta­tus in the 1986 to see what became of them since that time, insin­u­at­ing that many may have become crim­i­nals. Tully argued, “Ruthie, it seems to me that before we do this again, we need to find out what the four mil­lion peo­ple who were granted amnesty in 1986 went on to do with their lives in the United States. Are they hard work­ers, are they col­lege grads, have they become cit­i­zens or are they in jail?”

Tully went on to voice the first of her many con­spir­acy the­o­ries claim­ing that chil­dren from Mex­ico are cross­ing the U.S./Mexico bor­der to attend Amer­i­can schools on a daily basis. Tully claimed, “I just got a report that I will be inves­ti­gat­ing later this year that along the bor­der in Ari­zona and New Mex­ico they are run­ning school busses to the bor­der to pick up stu­dents who are com­ing in from Mex­ico to attend K-12 classes.”

Tully also crit­i­cized DREAM Act-eligible stu­dents, assert­ing that “the arro­gance I have seen by the DREAM­ers alone, frankly, and their demands and what they think that they’re enti­tled to sim­ply because they’re here and breath­ing our air is phe­nom­e­nal to me. I don’t know what kind of a cul­ture pro­duces peo­ple that are that arrogant.”

Accord­ing to FAIR’s web­site, Tully’s job is to “edu­cate the media and pub­lic on immi­gra­tion issues.” On “The Ruthie Report” Tully instead voiced unfounded con­spir­acy the­o­ries and used big­oted anti-immigrant rhetoric.

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January 17, 2013 1

Access ADL Blog: Our First Year

The Anti-Defamation League’s Access ADL blog was launched last Jan­u­ary to pro­vide inside access to the agency’s work and exper­tise on a vari­ety of top­ics, and to serve as a resource.

In our first year, we pub­lished nearly 250 blog posts, pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion and analy­sis on a range of issues, includ­ing online extrem­ism, anti-Semitism, extrem­ism and ter­ror­ism, the anti-immigration move­ment, anti-Israel activ­ity and much more.

In that time, Access ADL has become a trusted resource for news and infor­ma­tion. We thank the more than 100,000 unique vis­i­tors for their sup­port and inter­est in our work.

Below is the list of most viewed blog posts in Access ADL’s first year:

August 6, 2012 - ADL Con­nects Sus­pected Shooter at Wis­con­sin Sikh Tem­ple to White Suprema­cist Skin­head Group

Fol­low­ing the shoot­ing at a Wis­con­sin Sikh tem­ple, Access ADL pub­lished sev­eral exclu­sive images of the shooter, Wade Michael Page, and con­nected him to the white power music scene as well as to the to the Ham­mer­skins, a vio­lent racist skin­head group.

Wade Michael Page

Sep­tem­ber 14, 2012 - Anti-Muslim Chris­t­ian Activists Respon­si­ble For Inflam­ma­tory “Inno­cence of Mus­lims” Film

In response to the release of the anti-Islam film, Inno­cence of Mus­lims, which sparked con­sid­er­able out­rage and vio­lence across the Mid­dle East and Islamic world, Access ADL iden­ti­fied the key indi­vid­u­als involved in the film and their con­nec­tions to a net­work of anti-Muslim organizations.

Decem­ber 18, 2012 - Con­spir­acy The­o­rists Blame Jews For Sandy Hook Massacre

In the after­math of the Sandy Hook school shoot­ing in Con­necti­cut, Access ADL uncov­ered sev­eral con­spir­acy the­o­ries blam­ing Jews and Israel for the shoot­ing, and exposed the neo-Nazi ties of Mike Har­ris, who blamed Israel for the Sandy Hook shoot­ing dur­ing an inter­view on Iran’s Press TV.

Novem­ber 16, 2012 - Demon­stra­tors at Anti-Israel Ral­lies: “Gaza is the Real Holo­caust,” “Long live the Intifada!”

In response to Israel’s Oper­a­tion Pil­lar of Defense, Access ADL pub­lished daily updates on the anti-Israel ral­lies orga­nized in the U.S., expos­ing the extreme nar­ra­tives that marked the ral­lies, includ­ing the sup­port for ter­ror anti-Semitism.

May 21, 2012 - New Ara­bic Trans­la­tion of Tal­mud Pro­motes Anti-Semitic Narratives

Access ADL revealed the pres­ence of age-old anti-Semitic con­spir­a­cies in a newly released Ara­bic trans­la­tion of the Tal­mud – the first of its kind.

July 27, 2102 - Hezbol­lah on Your iPhone: There’s An App for ThatHezbollah's iTunes App

Access ADL broke the news about how Apple’s iTunes ser­vice was pro­vid­ing access to con­tent from Hezbollah’s satel­lite tele­vi­sion sta­tion, al-Manar, which sub­se­quently described ADL as being part of Israel’s war against Hezbollah.

August 17, 2012 - Pos­si­ble Extrem­ist Con­nec­tion to Louisiana Police Shootings

Access ADL pro­vided evi­dence sug­gest­ing that some of the peo­ple involved in the shoot­ing deaths of two Louisiana sheriff’s deputies in LaPlace were anti-government extremists.

Sep­tem­ber 5, 2012 - For­mer Youth for West­ern Civ­i­liza­tion Leader Pro­motes White Stu­dent Union at Towson

When a white suprema­cist tried to form a “White Stu­dent Union” at Tow­son Uni­ver­sity in Mary­land, Access ADL revealed the effort and exposed his affil­i­a­tions with far-right groups.

July 3, 2012 - Far­rakhan Leads Audi­ence in Anti-Semitic Tirade

Access ADL released a video of Nation of Islam leader Louis Far­rakhan lead­ing his audi­ence in Chicago in an anti-Semitic call and response.

March 26, 2012 - New Black Pan­ther Party Enflames Trayvon Mar­tin Incident

After an African-American teenager was shot and killed in Florida, Access ADL exposed efforts by the New Black Pan­ther Party (NBPP) to insert­ them­selves in one of the most high pro­file, racially charged issues of the year. The post also pro­vided back­ground on the NBPP, the largest orga­nized anti-Semitic and racist black mil­i­tant group in America.

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January 3, 2013 12

White Supremacists Plan Anti-Immigration Rallies Nationwide in February 2013

White suprema­cists from around the United States are plan­ning to hold “Free Amer­ica” ral­lies oppos­ing “ille­gal immigration” on Feb­ru­ary 23, 2013.

A post on the white suprema­cist Inter­net forum Storm­front men­tions sched­uled ral­lies in cen­tral Cal­i­for­nia, Ore­gon, Mass­a­chu­setts, Ten­nessee, Washington/Idaho, West Vir­ginia, New York and Penn­syl­va­nia. Accord­ing to the post, Harry Bertram, who ran for gov­er­nor of West Vir­ginia under the white suprema­cist Amer­i­can Third Posi­tion (A3P) ticket in 2012, is orga­niz­ing the West Vir­ginia rally.

The main web­site pro­vid­ing infor­ma­tion about the Feb­ru­ary 2013 “Free Amer­ica” ral­lies appears to be run by California-based white suprema­cist Michael Myers. He has a long his­tory of involve­ment in white suprema­cist orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing the Golden State Skin­heads, a racist skin­head group very active in the white power music scene in Cal­i­for­nia. Myers is also affil­i­ated with A3P.

In addi­tion, Myers was the lead orga­nizer for the South African Project (SAP), a coordinated—and largely unsuccessful–effort by white suprema­cists, in Feb­ru­ary 2012, to bring atten­tion to the alleged “geno­cide” of white South African farm­ers. He led the SAP protest in Sacra­mento, California.

An ear­lier web­site set up for the anti-immigrant ral­lies listed a dif­fer­ent date and con­tact per­sons. One con­tact listed on the pre­vi­ous web­site was “Milissa Schidecker,” who was des­ig­nated as the point per­son for the Louisiana protests. It appears that “Milissa Schidecker” is in fact Milissa Gulett, the wife of Mor­ris Gulett, a well-known white supremacist.

The Guletts recently returned to Louisiana where Mor­ris set up the new head­quar­ters for his fac­tion of the neo-Nazi orga­ni­za­tion Aryan Nations. Though Milissa Gullet’s (or Schidecker’s) name does not appear on the new web­site, her Face­book page reveals that she “liked” the event page set up for the Feb­ru­ary 23 “Free Amer­ica” ral­lies. It is unclear at this time whether the Guletts are plan­ning to have a rally on Feb­ru­ary 23 in Louisiana.

For many years, white suprema­cists have attempted to use the issue of immi­gra­tion as a way to tap into the Amer­i­can main­stream. Their efforts in this area have not been successful.

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