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Jim Gilchrist Sets Record Straight On Reuters Report

J.J. Jackson* | July 29, 2006 

Michelle Nichols of Reuters gave us a prime example of how to stack a story on Wednesday when she reported

Immigration activists clashed at the site of the World Trade Center on Wednesday when an anti-illegal immigration group called for secure borders to avoid a repeat of the September 11 attacks and counterprotesters yelled “racists go home.”

Members of the Minuteman Project, which patrols the U.S.-Mexican border for illegal immigrants, pushed and shoved members of an immigrant rights group that showed up at the event.

Jim Gilchrist and Jerome Corsi, authors of “Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders,” were whisked away when some immigrant rights supporters broke through a police barrier and scuffled with Minutemen supporters.

The story is built upside down spending the first two paragraphs setting up the Minutemen as aggressors when the third paragraph says otherwise.

She also mischaracterize the groups protesting the Minutemen as “immigrant rights groups”. This is not true. They are “illegal immigrants rights” groups if they are protesting against the Minutemen who are not trying to stop immigrants from entering the country but rather “illegal immigrants” crossing our borders “illegally”.

Jim Gilchrist spoke out to set the record straight however.

Minuteman Project founder Jim Gilchrist and his co-author Jerome Corsi dispute a Reuters report of their book-tour kickoff at Ground Zero in New York City that implied the citizen border-watch group provoked a physical confrontation with protesters.

The second paragraph of a Reuters story by Michelle Nichols said Minuteman members “pushed and shoved members of an immigrant rights group that showed up at the event.”

In fact, Gilchrist told WND, it was the radical activist group that launched an assault while he was answering questions from the media. The group of about 125 broke through a police barrier across the street and pushed and shoved members of Gilchrist’s entourage, including his wife, before police intervened.

A handful of New York City police officers, trying to protect Gilchrist and his colleagues, quickly whisked them away in cabs.

Gilchrist and Corsi are authors of “Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Border”, described as a first-hand account of how the nation’s southern border has disintegrated into a “Wild West of human trafficking, drug smuggling and violent gangs.”

Corsi called the Reuters report a “distortion,” insisting that if there was any pushing and shoving by Minuteman members, it was done in an attempt to avoid getting knocked down by the protesters flooding in from across the street. - WorldNetDaily

Michelle also fell down in her article failing to tell the truth and set the record straight after including comments by two of the illegal immigrants rights protestors saying

Stephen Durham, 58, was one of 50 activists who protested the Minutemen’s appearance in New York.

“I’m really appalled that (the Minuteman Project) would use 9/11 to publicize a plan (to secure U.S. borders) which is fundamentally so unconstitutional and un-American,” he said. “We are all immigrants. Immigrant labor built America.”

Had Michelle done her job and reported the facts she would have followed this comment up by citing the Constitution itself which Stephen Durham has apparently never read.

The relevant sections she should have quoted to show Stephen as the useful idiot he is would have been Article I, Section 8 “The Congress shall have Power To … establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization” and Article I, Section 9 “The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.”

As we all can CLEARLY see, immigration laws are COMPLETELY Constitutional and Congress clearly has the right to prohibit the migration or importation of persons since last time I looked it was past the year 1888.

But I’ll bet Stephen supports all sorts of unconstitutional laws like Social Security, Medicare, Welfare, etc which are clearly NOT enumerated as powers of Congress. Just a hunch, but I’ll bet I’m right.

In Mortal Danger: The Battle for America’s Border and Security (Book) Authors:Tom Tancredo Manufacturer:WND Books Released:06 June, 2006

Minutemen: The Battle to Secure America’s Borders (Book) Authors:Jim Gilchrist, Jerome R. Corsi, Congressman Tom Tancredo Manufacturer:World Ahead Publishing Released:25 July, 2006

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