SPLC Takes a Swipe at ALIPAC and Misses! 9 documented lies!
Posted on Monday, March 10 @ 15:52:03 EDT
Topic: Americans for Legal Immigration PAC
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 ALIPAC NOTE: The following is the SPLC hit piece on William Gheen of ALIPAC. They claim that William Gheen is one of the 20 most influential 'nativists' in the nation. Please see our notes documenting 9 lies in this propaganda piece.
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Gheen.
William Gheen
William Gheen, 39
Raleigh, N.C.
The website of the influential political action committee Americans for
Legal Immigration, commonly known as ALI-PAC, contains a list of
"Gheen-isms," folksy nativist aphorisms from ALI-PAC founder William
Gheen. Here's one example: "Call me old fashioned, but people should be
able to shop at Wal-Mart without worrying about catching
[t]uberculosis."
Gheen quit his job as a legislative assistant to North Carolina
Sen. Hugh Webster (R-Alamance County) in April 2005 to form ALI-PAC in
order to fight against the passage of House Bill 1138, which would have
allowed certain non-citizens to qualify for in-state tuition rates at
publicly funded North Carolina colleges and universities. Gheen
disparagingly and falsely referred to the "Access to Higher Education
and A Better Economic Future Act" as "in-state tuition for illegal
aliens."
Lie Count 1-4: Wrong founding date for ALIPAC. Wrong founding purpose
for ALIPAC. Wrong description of employment status change. Wrong date
of employment change from Webster Office.
FALSE: William Gheen did not quit the
job with Senator Webster in April 2005 to fight HB 1183. ALIPAC was
formed as a national organization on 9/11/2004. I took a temporary
leave of absence from my job with Senator Webster to lobby against and
defeat HB 1183 and returned to my post two weeks later. I did not quit
my job with Senator Webster until April of 2006 when I decided to
concentrate exclusively on ALIPAC.
The bill was only sought to grant in-state tuition to immigrants who
had graduated from high school after attending four consecutive years
of public school in North Carolina and who supplied a sworn affidavit
showing they were in the country legally and had applied for
citizenship.
Lie Coun #5: HB 1183 did not require legal presence in the US.
FALSE: HB 1183 did not require illegal aliens to supply a sworn affidavit showing they were in the country legally.
By the time Gheen and his misinformation machine were finished,
however, many North Carolina lawmakers and journalists, let alone
average residents, were convinced the proposed law would instantly
offer in-state tuition to any Mexican who hopped the border.
As a result, daily newspapers and TV stations began asking
misleading poll questions. CBS affiliate WRAL Channel 5 News queried
people about "a bill that would give children of illegal immigrants
in-state tuition." The Wilmington Star asked readers, "Should children
of illegal immigrants get in-state tuition rates at N.C. colleges?"
without mentioning the necessary qualifications or that children born
on U.S. soil are automatically citizens under the U.S. Constitution.
The polls skewed heavily against the bill, and in the end it was
soundly defeated.
Lie Count #6: HB 1183 was not directed at children born on US soil as citizens.
FALSE: The reason ALIPAC and most
major news sources used the term "in-state tuition for illegal aliens
is because HB 1183 would grant in state tuition for illegal aliens.
This was not because of any misinformation campaign and it is ludicrous
to assert that our major papers, talk radio shows, and WRAL would all
be wrong about this.
Since his initial victory, Gheen has gone on national media outlets
including CNN, FOX and National Public Radio to launch preemptive
strikes against any bill or ordinance that he perceives as sympathetic
to immigrants, and to support laws proposed to deny public benefits to
immigrants, to empower local police to arrest Latinos on federal
immigration charges, and to fine anyone who employs an undocumented
immigrant. He even pressed for a Senate bill to fund a study of buying
buses to deport immigrants in massive numbers.
Lie Count 7-8: Gheen never pushed for enforcement against Latinos. Never
pressed for a Senate bill to buy buses, only asked to comment once on a
particular bill by a reporter.
ALI-PAC is supported by the Federation for American Immigration
Reform, recently designated as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law
Center's Intelligence Project, and allied with various Minuteman
factions.
Lie Count #9: ALIPAC has never been supported by FAIR.
FAIR is not a hate group.
FALSE: ALIPAC receives no support from
the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and never has.
Also, FAIR is not a hate group. The SPLC is full of bull crap.
"The rallying cry is: Illegals Go Home!' Gheen declares on the ALI-PAC
website. "No corporate propaganda will change the fact that most
Americans do not want to surrender or capitulate to the lawless masses
rushing into our nation."
Darn, I thought the SPLC was more
skillful than this. They completely botched this attack piece. It will
be easy to eat them alive for putting this out since the piece contains
so many easily provable false statements. I do like the quotes at the
beginning and the end and they did get this part right... "The
influential political action committee Americans for Legal Immigration,
commonly known as ALI-PAC" That's right babies, you got that right!
-- William Gheen
SPLC Hit piece source
splc(dot)org
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