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