LAKE FOREST, CA —Americans for Legal Immigration PAC, a national non-partisan political action committee supporting candidates who will enforce America’s immigration laws, announced its endorsement of “Minuteman Founder” Jim Gilchrist, Independent Congressional Candidate for the upcoming California District 48 special election on October 4th.
“Americans for Legal Immigration PAC is endorsing Jim Gilchrist because of his selfless dedication and successful activism addressing our national crisis of border security and illegal immigration,” states William Gheen, president of ALIPAC. “In Jim’s California district, as is true nationwide, all the surveys show voters are ready to hold Washington accountable for the government’s failure to act to control illegal immigration—on our borders and in our communities. We need to send Congress a message and Jim Gilchrist IS the message.”
http://www.jimgilchrist.com/article.php?id=36NEW REPORT BLASTS AMERICANS FOR LEGAL IMMIGRATION – PAC
(Tuesday, 21 June 2005) -
Chicago - According to a report just released by the Center for New Community, the Raleigh, North Carolina political
action community Americans for Legal Immigration (ALI – PAC) has deep ties to both border vigilantes and anti-Latino
bigots.
“ALI-PAC has made something of a splash in the North Carolina media in recent weeks,” said Center executive director
Rev. David Ostendorf, “but its leaders have yet to be called to account for their connections to organized anti-immigrant
bigots.”
The report, Americans for Legal Immigration: Xenophobia, Nativism and Anti-Immigrant Hysteria, was authored by
Center for New Community staff. It documents that along with its mean-spirited attacks on legislation designed to
strengthen state institutions and increase their ability to assimilate newcomers, ALI-PAC has amply demonstrated its
political leanings in the following:
- ALI-PAC leaders participated prominently in a recent Las Vegas meeting of anti-immigrant activists that featured
James Gilchrist and Chris Simcox of the vigilante Minutemen Project, anti-Latino conspiracy theorist Barbara Coe of the
California Coalition for Immigration Reform, and Rick Oltman of FAIR who is reportedly a member of the white
supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens.
- William Gheen, ALI-PAC’s president, has personally endorsed the so-called reconquista conspiracy theory which holds
that Mexico and Mexicans have territorial designs on the American Southwest. In a recent post to the organization’s
website, Gheen claimed: “The Aztlan separatist movement is real. Reconquista is real. We are in danger of losing part of
America thanks to negligent and complicit press and politicians.”
- While claiming mass support for its work and making a media splash—largely with its convoluted website—ALI-PAC,
according to the most recently available FEC filings, raised less than $2000 last year (including an $800 loan from
Gheen) and has fewer than 900 registered users on its website, most of them from outside of North Carolina
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