Jim Gilchrist on the attack against Harvard student activist

 Posted by on 2009/11/03  Comments Off
Nov 032009
 
Jim Gilchrist on the attack against Harvard student activist

For months, Jim Gilchrist, founder of the original border vigilante group, the Minutemen, looked forward to his invitation to speak at a Public Interest and Law Conference hosted by The Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee (HULC). Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed and it was decided that Gilchrist’s participation in the conference on the behalf of the Minutemen Project was not compatible with providing an environment for civil, educational, and productive discourse on immigration, and HULC decided they couldnot host him at that time. And they were correct. Wherever Gilchrist appears, it is to rant about spew misinformation about illegal immigrants, border security and his utopian vision of a world without immigrants. Kyle de Beausset, an undergraduate student and migrant advocate, and publisher MORE

Harvard group cancels invitation to anti-immigration speaker

 Posted by on 2009/10/18  8 Responses »
Oct 182009
 
Harvard group cancels invitation to anti-immigration speaker

Less than a year after speaking at a Harvard University student conference, the head of an anti-illegal immigration movement had his invitation to speak at a similar forum rescinded following a student uproar over his aggressive position on immigration. Jim Gilchrist, founder of the Minuteman Project, which sends armed vigilantes to patrol the Mexican border for illegal immigrants crossing into the United States, was scheduled to speak during a public interest and law conference hosted by the Harvard Undergraduate Legal Committee. Gilchrist was slated to appear on a panel that discussed “Immigration and Its Future in America.’’ But student protests, emboldened since Gilchrist spoke at a Harvard Law School event in February, led to the cancellation of his invitation.