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On AlterNet: nativism

Stories, blog posts, and videos tagged as "nativism"

Hotel Owner Tells

Hotel Owner Tells "Spanish" Employees to Change Their Names and "Speak Only English"

Amanda Terkel, Think Progress AlterNet: PEEK. October 27, 2009.
Larry Whitten further angered the community by referring to locals as "mountain people" and "potheads who escaped society"

Meet the New 'Illegals': White Collar Criminals

Meet the New 'Illegals': White Collar Criminals

Edmundo Rocha, XicanoPwr.com AlterNet: PEEK. March 24, 2009.
White-collar crime is running rampant and white collar criminals are the new illegals.

The New Political Economy of Immigration

The New Political Economy of Immigration

Tom Barry, Dollars and Sense. February 18, 2009.
The "enforcement only" policy has fostered a national immigrant prison complex that feeds on ever-increasing numbers of arrested immigrants.

Immigrant Rights Activists March on ICE on Day After Inauguration

Immigrant Rights Activists March on ICE on Day After Inauguration

Marcelo Ballvé, New America Media. January 21, 2009.
Immigrant advocates wasted no time in pressing their agenda of reform, organizing a march the day after President Obama's inauguration.

Nativist Extremist Appointed to Virginia County Task Force

Nativist Extremist Appointed to Virginia County Task Force

Sonia Scherr, Southern Poverty Law Center. October 20, 2008.
Robert L. Duecaster regularly makes defamatory comments about Catholics, Muslims and undocumented immigrants.

Immigrant Students Face Harrassment, Racial Profiling on Campus

Immigrant Students Face Harrassment, Racial Profiling on Campus

Edwin Okong'o, deleted. July 15, 2008.
Going through legal channels to study in America doesn't protect young people from racism.

Right-wing Think-tank Busted for Dodgy

Right-wing Think-tank Busted for Dodgy "Islamic Extremism" Report

AlterNetDecember 15, 2007.
Critics say a British conservative group's revelations about home-grown Islamic extremism contained fabricated evidence.

The Right Plays to its Nativist Base

The Right Plays to its Nativist Base

David Neiwert, TomPaine.com. October 2, 2007.
What passes for "conservatism" these days is a theater of scapegoating that fuels not just the anti-immigrant right but also the anti-gay, anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-liberal rhetoric.

Who Would Jesus Deport?

Who Would Jesus Deport?

Alexander Zaitchik, SPLC Intelligence Report. January 29, 2007.
A grassroots movement is forming in which anti-immigrant rhetoric dovetails with the odes to God and country that have long constituted conservative evangelical boilerplate.