Thread: Tactics

Patriots, one of the tactics I mentioned (knowing it's likely y'all already thought of it but yah' never know, a newbie may be prompted to use a tactic) was writing to reporters for newspapers that have on-line editions and sending a news story from a different source that tells of one or more horrors committed by an illegal alien(s).

I read a story at this newspaper:

www.philly.com

where the reporter was neither pro- nor anti-illegal alien.

Sent the guy an e-mail with my favorite story to send (I'll include it at the end of this post).

I included some personal comments. The reporter responded and asked for my home town so my comments could be published. I did. Waiting, now, for my message to appear. Maybe it won't be used but, hey, he did ask for permission and my home town to go with my name. Also, it may only appear in the print issue.

Whatever the case, it IS a tactic that does work at times.

Here is the news story I use when sending messages to reporters, etc. I do include personal comments and set the news story apart from my writing so the recipient knows the news story is not my writing.
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Mass INS Arrests Upset Farm Town Immigrants sent home on charges of harassment

Larry D. Hatfield, Chronicle Staff Writer Tuesday, April 10, 2001 ©2001 San Francisco Chronicle

Greenfield, a normally placid Monterey County farm town that bills itself as the world's broccoli capital, is currently the center of an ugly controversy involving alleged sexual mistreatment of children and ethnic harassment of immigrants.

"We may have averted a tragedy, and certainly ended a public nuisance," said acting regional director Dave Still of the San Francisco office of the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

"They go after everybody because they look alike, they're all brown-skinned, " said Tony Acosta, a leader of the Central Coast Citizenship Project.

Both men were talking about the arrest of 39 Mexican immigrants -- Still says they were here illegally, Acosta says that is not certain -- on the streets of Greenfield last week.

After an undercover operation begun several weeks ago, INS agents arrested 21 men outside a downtown pool hall on Friday afternoon, and 18 more in a nearby apartment building.

The first group of men, according to the INS, were "observed harassing, touching and shouting lewd remarks at schoolgirls just out of class" at four nearby schools -- Greenfield and Oak Avenue elementary schools, Vista Verde Middle School and Greenfield High School.

The second group was arrested after a complaint was registered by a Greenfield schoolgirl, said INS spokeswoman Sharon Rummery. She said the alleged incidents were observed over several weeks.

The girls involved were between 5 and 18, Rummery said. The men arrested were aged 17 to 55.

The men were taken in buses to the Mexican border immediately after the arrests. An undetermined number of wives and children were given the option of going with them, but Rummery said they declined. They are likely to go before immigration judges to determine their residential status, she said.

Acosta, whose group is one of the leading immigrant advocacy organizations in the Salinas Valley, accused the INS of making indiscriminate arrests.

"They arrested one of the groups at one of the businesses on the main street, then went into the apartment complex," he said. "There was no knocking.

They just pushed the doors down and took all the men and left the women and children. They arrested everybody without asking for documents."

Rummery said the INS agents knew who they were after and that the arrests were based on nine complaints, from school crossing guards, the Monterey County sheriff's office and others. The first complaint was several weeks ago from a DARE program narcotics officer from the sheriff's office.

The arrests were part of the INS' "Salinas Project," a program set up in the heavily Hispanic area in September, when the last remaining Border Patrol officers were pulled from Salinas and reassigned to the border. "People in the area were concerned and nervous there would be no INS presence," Rummery said.

When the sexual harassment allegations began, the three officers assigned to the project set up an undercover program.

"The sorts of things we observed happening over several weeks are not violations of immigration laws," she said. "But we're there to support local law enforcement, and we saw a potential danger to young girls and acted on it."

Greenfield police were not available today to say why no local criminal charges were filed.

City Manager Randy Anstine said he did not know why the arrests were a purely INS action. "The city of Greenfield cooperates with any and all law enforcement agencies, whether federal, state or county," he said, noting that local authorities were not told of the action until shortly before the arrests.

"But we certainly don't tell anyone how to do their job."

One official suggested off the record that because of manpower and fiscal considerations, Greenfield let the INS handle the matter by simply removing the alleged perpetrators, rather than prosecuting them.

The arrests, already the subject of an angry community meeting last night, will be on the city council's agenda next Tuesday evening. Acosta said he expects many people unhappy with the outcome to show up. Greenfield's population of 12,583 is 85.4 percent Hispanic.

"We'd like to find out what really happened," Acosta said.

He was skeptical of the accounts that the men harassed schoolgirls.

"The INS is in Salinas to arrest criminals, and that's OK," he said. "But these guys were coming for work. They leave at 4 and 5 in the morning and come back at 4 or 5 in the afternoon, so how can they harass schoolchildren? They came here to work. We'd like an explanation from the INS."

The Mexican government is apparently also concerned. Hugo Juarez, the Mexican consul in San Jose, was in Greenfield today taking statements from residents. He was not available for comment.

I would assume there is video backup of the accusations. 85% Hispanic?? Geez...

RR

Why would you use a story from 2001 when you can pick from 10 in the last week? My biggest success has been in rebutting their (MOD EDIT) 'one line at a time'. What I'm starting to learn is that most of these 'writers' don't have a clue, and when you call or e-mail them with specific rebuttals (WITH references) they will usually let your 'counterpoint' be heard. ( Just don't start out with "Jane, you ignorant slut!")

When you dispel the myths propagated by the open borders crowd, you can usually strike a resonant chord with someone who hasn't totally forgotten what being a 'citizen' means. Our big job is to wake up that 'citizenship' in the rest of us.

That is a good idea obbop and I hope our activists will send positive and negative feedback to journalists and reporters on a regular basis.

That is why Ive asked those that post articles in our news section to always include a contact email when avail.

The General Activist training here at ALIPAC is that each activist should be a constant feedback mechanism. By phone, email, letters, letters to the editor, and calls into talk radio shows we should each be sending out encouragement to those that are with us and resistance to those that are against us.

Getting more Americans to do some of that everyday is our plan for victory.

I hope you will post beneath articles here in on the boards when you send feedback to encourage others to do the same.

W