AltWeeklies Wire
Shawna Forde is Lethally Blondenew
How a former teen prostitute and beautician became an influential anti-immigrant crusader -- and alleged murderer.
Seattle Weekly |
Rick Anderson |
07-20-2009 |
Crime & Justice
Three Days at the Border with the Minutemennew

Reporting for duty during the California Minutemen's October muster, I encounter a miniscule army of geriatric Republicans lacking political support who are disorganized, hamstrung by petty regulations, ineffective, and sedentary.
Los Angeles CityBeat |
Nathaniel Page |
10-24-2008 |
Immigration
The Minutemen's Own Riefenstahl?new
Christie Czajkowski is more than a political activist fighting against a perceived Mexican invasion; she's the movement's videographer.
San Diego CityBeat |
Eric Wolff |
08-15-2007 |
Immigration
Anti-Immigrant Fight Clubnew
How I learned self-defense from the California Coalition for Immigration Reform and lived to write about it.
OC Weekly |
Luke Y. Thompson |
04-10-2007 |
Immigration
Tags: illegal immigrant, Minutemen
The Huntednew
Minutemen train their sights on a new target: Hispanic day laborers.
Dallas Observer |
Megan Feldman |
12-18-2006 |
Immigration
Labor Disputenew
The Minutemen are trying to discourage day worker hires in North Texas.
Fort Worth Weekly |
Dan McGraw |
12-01-2006 |
Immigration
Fight For the Futurenew

Anti-illegal immigrant activists go to work in America's oldest immigration entry point.
New York Press |
Brett Liebendorfer |
07-06-2006 |
Immigration
Razin' La Razanew
Whether posing as protesters or cutting off speeches, Orange County police are clamping down on immigrant-rights activists.
OC Weekly |
Gustavo Arellano |
01-20-2006 |
Immigration
The Minuteman's Talenew

Meet Chris Simcox, vigilante leader, right-wing dilettante and, according to one new report by The Southern Poverty Law Center, a man rapidly skidding towards extremist delusion.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
12-29-2005 |
Immigration
Tags: Minutemen
Operation Nowherenew
What if you threw a border patrol operation and no one came? An on-the-scene report from The Minutemen patrol in New Mexico.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Nathan Dinsdale |
10-31-2005 |
Immigration
This Ain't No Picnic: Minutemen on Patrolnew

As one night with the Texas Minutemen proves, the sinister legions of "The Drug Cartel" have little to fear from this latest incarnation of border hysteria. As for the rest of us...
Austin Chronicle |
Diana Welch |
10-27-2005 |
Immigration
Postcards from the U.S.-Mexican Bordernew
Three friends passed out a few hundred disposable cameras and persuaded migrants to take pictures of their adventure crossing the desert. They hope to exhibit the results in art galleries.
Phoenix New Times |
Jimmy Magahern |
10-25-2005 |
Immigration
At the Readynew

When the president of a Texas Minuteman group resigned because he couldn't stand the racist tendencies of other members in his chapter, it left many Houston residents debating the purpose of the volunteer border patrollers, and what good they might be doing.
Houston Press |
Keith Plocek |
08-22-2005 |
Immigration
How The Minutemen Play on Fears and Fantasies
Author Rubén Martínez comments on The Minutemen, U.S. immigration policy and why George Bush wants to save the Mexicans.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Julia Goldberg |
04-13-2005 |
Immigration
Monitoring the Messagenew
The Minutemen pull media strings in Southern Arizona.
Tucson Weekly |
Tim Vanderpool |
04-06-2005 |
Immigration