Thread: Google Search for ALIPAC.This was 4th on 1st pg of results

ALIPAC illustrates anti-migrant activists' fascist and white nationalist aims

See also: mimnotes.info's "Minutemen" section.

By an HC, June 25, 2005

Posted on mimnotes.info June 26, 2005

The Center for New Community recently released a report documenting Americans "for Legal Immigration" PAC President William Gheen's "association with some of the most bigoted of the anti-immigrant activists."(1)(2)

Such information is interesting from the viewpoint of looking at how anti-migrant activists organize. Other sources, in addition to the Center for New Community, have said that Federation for American Immigration Reform Western Field Director Rick Oltman, another speaker at last month's "Unite to Fight" summit in Las Vegas, not only has worked with the Council of Conservative Citizens but also is a member of this openly white supremacist group. What??? The CCC believes "that illegal immigration must be stopped, if necessary by military force and placing troops on our national borders; that illegal aliens must be returned to their own countries . . . We also oppose all efforts to mix the races of mankind" ("A Statement of the Principles of the Council of Conservative Citizens," http://www.cofcc.org/manifest.htm).

What William Gheen himself thinks is important, too. Gheen, like other prominent anti-migrant activists, illustrates where anti-migrant activists' concerns really lie. Open white supremacists aren't the only threat to migrant proletarians.This has got to stop!!! The fact that some of those whom Gheen associates with are open white supremacists is just icing on a foul-tasting cake.

The Center for New Community report, entitled "Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI-PAC): Xenophobia, Nativism and Anti-Immigrant Hysteria," correctly points out that ALIPAC opposes both documented and undocumented migration despite ALIPAC's thin pretense of supporting "legal immigration"; mimnotes.into reported this a while ago. Indeed, ALIPAC puts the interests of Amerikans first and above all else even when it means continued super-exploitation of workers in Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, and elsewhere in the Third World.

ALIPAC's opposition to the pending Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act of 2005 is also telling. This legislation represents a thoroughly imperialist migration policy--make no mistake about it. The Act would result in beefing up already repressive u.$. borders with personnel and/or technology. The Act would result in further surveillance of both documented and undocumented migrants. And its visa limitations would potentially limit oppressed-nation migrants' upward economic mobility. In fact, the Act's fine requirements target the poorest migrant workers.

But that isn't enough for ALIPAC. Like many other anti-migrant activists, ALIPAC opposes any semblance of amnesty even when the legislation in question would not end the repression of migrant workers. That is, ALIPAC wants even more reactionary imperialist migration policy and even more reactionary imperialist borders. It objects to the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act, not because the Act doesn't do enough to "secure the border," but because the Act supposedly legalizes undocumented migrants in the united $tates when it does not. In other words, ALIPAC's activism could have the effect of reinforcing the exploitation of undocumented migrant workers.

The Center for New Community report points out that the Americans "for Legal Immigration" Political Action Committee actually had very little money in 2004. Well, ALIPAC was founded in 2004, but ALIPAC's funding is still somewhat surprising because at the May Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration Summit in Las Vegas, ALIPAC President William Gheen proposed withholding donations from candidates who don't support intensifying the repression of migrants. What donations? In May 2005, with all the talk about withholding donations, it were as if ALIPAC had hundreds of thousands of dollars at least.

Through stunts like agitating against the Channel 62 billboards in Los Angeles, ALIPAC seeks to whip up support for the mass deportation of all undocumented migrants inside the united $tates. "We need to block any guest-worker, new and improved, disguised amnesty bill from passing before the next election. . . . They want to lock in the 10 to 20 to 30 million illegal aliens because they're already telling us 'they're not going anywhere.' I say that's an opinion statement. It is an opinion statement." (What precision from a hysterical reactionary. One of those is bound to be right. In fact, the number is closest to 10 million.) During the same speech, Gheen ridiculed migrant workers who were deported during the INS-named Operation Wetback, raising the specter of another buslift.(4)

"Study after study shows that Americans work harder than any other industrialized nation in the world. Don't tell me we don't want to work."

There is a fine line between ALIPAC and many Amerikans who believe that bourgeois myth, which confuses dollar output per hour with "working hard." White nationalism in all its manifestations must be opposed. This vicious movement to heighten the repression of undocumented migrants and would-be migrants must not be allowed to pave the way for even more reactionary imperialist policy toward Latin American and other oppressed-nation migrants.


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Notes

1. "New Report Blasts Americans for Legal Immigration - PAC," 24 June

2. Center for New Community, "Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI-PAC): Xenophobia, Nativism and Anti-Immigrant Hysteria," June 2005,

3. Laura B. Martinez, "Web site sale to help curb illegal immigration," 25 June 2005, http://www.brownsvilleherald.com/ts_mor ... 6_0_10_0_C

4. Juan Ramon García, Operation Wetback : The Mass Deportation of Mexican Undocumented Workers in 1954 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1980).

5. Marianne Love and Shirley Hsu, "Protest around Baldwin Park monument goes smoothly," 25 June 2005, http://www.whittierdailynews.com/Storie ... 46,00.html

Wow, that article uses just about every dishonest propaganda ploy in the book, ranging from guilt by association to straw man arguments. It accuses ALIPAC of consorting with known racists while failing to acknowledge that major Latino organizations like La Raza are racist by definition. It also calls American productivity a "myth" without producing even a whiff of evidence to back that characterization. Add to that the gratuitous use of adjectives like imperialist, xenophobic, and reactionary and what you clearly have is a ranting little screed aimed at uneducated peasants and meant to inflame hostilities against this nation and its native citizens. It's the sort of thing one would expect to see being handed out at a Socialist student rally, copied on bifold colored paper.

So I guess that makes me a white supremacist, anti-immigrant racist too.

Funny thing is, I am an IMMIGRANT, I came here from Japan as a child with my family, we just came here legally.

I read the report they promote, and it is nothing more than a smear piece, totally garbage and full of guilt by unjustified associations. They say that Minutemen who led a border protest against illegal immigration are racist, because years ago, David Duke did the same thing, holding a border protest. So because David Duke held a border protest, and the Minutemen held a border protest, the Minutemen are the same as David Duke. I guess that's like if Hitler liked ice cream, if you like ice cream, you must be a genocidal murderer too. What a crock.

May God bless Americans , Legal immigrants , Alipac and everybody who follows the LAWS and lives the honest life .
May God give peace and love to this wounded country .
" Blest with victory and peace , may the heaven -rescued land
Praise the Power that hath made and preserved us a nation .
Then conquer we must , when our cause it is just ,
And this be our motto: " In God is our trust ." "

I have nothing to add for now - that article has so much negativity and hatred in it -
the person who wrote it needs to look in the mirror prior to writing .
Sometimes it helps - just to look in the mirror

Yes, this is an old hit piece from the Maoist Communists and their allies at Center for New Community. MIM of MIMnotes is "Maoist International Movement"

Commies don't like ALIPAC? TRUE.

William Gheen or ALIPAC is responsible for the actions and affiliations of Rick Oltman of FAIR? FALSE

Gheen is an "anti-immigrant activist" FALSE

Federation for American Immigration Reform Western Field Director Rick Oltman is a White Supremacist? FALSE

"ALIPAC opposes both documented and undocumented migration despite ALIPAC's thin pretense of supporting "legal immigration";" FALSE

"ALIPAC puts the interests of Amerikans first and above all else" TRUE

"ALIPAC opposes any semblance of amnesty even when the legislation in question would not end the repression of migrant workers." TRUE

"The Center for New Community report points out that the Americans "for Legal Immigration" Political Action Committee actually had very little money in 2004." TRUE we were founded in Sept of 2004 and those were our first 3 months of operations / existence.

Through stunts like agitating against the Channel 62 billboards in Los Angeles, ALIPAC seeks to whip up support for the mass deportation of all undocumented migrants inside the united $tates. "We need to block any guest-worker, new and improved, disguised amnesty bill from passing before the next election. . . . They want to lock in the 10 to 20 to 30 million illegal aliens because they're already telling us 'they're not going anywhere.' I say that's an opinion statement. It is an opinion statement."

TRUE! Hell YEA! We brought down those billboards in 8 days and picked up some great supporters that are still with us to this day!

This was on their website:

News and culture reviews from the standpoint of the world's exploited
and oppressed under imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy

Plus they stopped updating the site as of Apr 2006. Old news and old site, don't worry about it.

Plus they stopped updating the site as of Apr 2006. Old news and old site, don't worry about it.

I just don't like the fact that it shows up 4th on page 1 of a Google search for ALIPAC.

There is growing evidence that the Red Chinese are interested in our SW US debacle.

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

There is growing evidence that the Red Chinese are interested in our SW US debacle.

W

The Japanese also.

There is growing evidence that the Red Chinese are interested in our SW US debacle.

W

I'm not sure what you mean. Can you please explain?