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Anti-Immigrant Groups Collapse Into Hilarious Factionalism

Josh Fruhlinger
May 25, 2010
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 A thousand thanks to Wonkette hero tipster "Geminisunmars" for pointing us to this story from the Colorado Independent about how lots of people who hate immigration -- including former Congressman/laff-a-minute presidential candidate Tom Tancredo -- have come to hate each other almost as much if not more so than the immigrants that they also hate. Tune in for drama involving neo-Nazis and "skin heads," PDFs of Facebook profile pages, passive-aggressive mailing list hijinks, and a special surprise gay-baiting guest appearance -- after the jump!

The core of this silly story is this: William Gheen, who is the head of the "Americans for Legal Immigration PAC," has pulled out of a big anti-illegal immigration rally in Phoenix that Tancredo is participating in, because the organizer is associated with "skin heads and Nazis." This sounds to us like a good idea! And yet it's really in the details of this story that the true hilarity emerges:

  • Gheen is in fact the dude who called Lindsey Graham gay in this speech . Tom Tancredo told him in advance that this was "bullshit," and, in the ultimate insult, demanded that Gheen take Tancredo off his mailing list. This made Gheen go "ballistic."

  • Gheen started trashing Dan Smeriglio, the aforementioned rally organizer, as a neo-Nazi, and offered as evidence his Facebook page, which you can download as PDF (really?) here . "Use your mouse wheel to look at page 2," he urges. You'll see that Smeriglio is a fan of Swedish neo-Nazi music! (Side note: Gheen can recognize Swedish neo-Nazi music?) You'll also see that dude is an outspoken "COMMUNITY ORGANIZER" (i.e., communist).

  • Tancredo called Smeriglio a "nice kid." You know who else was a nice kid, Tom?

  • Also, in a classic move, Gheen vehemently denied being associated with the Federation for American Immigration Reform, a Southern Poverty Law Center-designated hate group, and then just as vehemently denied that the the Federation for American Immigration Reform was a hate group.

Anyway, soon all these people will deport each other and leave all of us Mexicans in peace. [ Colorado Independent ]

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