Glenn Spencer

Glenn Spencer is an activist who advocates greater vigilance in securing the United States–Mexico border against illegal immigration. He calls for maximum deportation efforts for all illegal immigrants, and supports an English only government language policy. Spencer is the founder of the American Border Patrol group based in Sierra Vista, Arizona. American Border Patrol is a private, non-governmental, organization with the stated purpose of assisting the United States Border Patrol in apprehending individuals illegally crossing the US/Mexican border. It is known for using small, radio-controlled aircraft and ground sensing equipment to track illegal immigrants, and then relaying that information to the US Border Patrol. Spencer also has assisted with the Minuteman Project and worked closely with anti-illegal immigration activist Roger Barnett.

Spencer has stated "Our borders are unprotected, and the (U.S.) Border Patrol is derelict in its duty… We are trying to help by any means necessary." "What we try to do is to get people to report to us what they see on the border, acquire a database of border activities, map border intrusions and drug activities and provide an independent assessment of how our Border Patrol is doing. This is something that the government does all the time. We just happen to be here on the border and can report it as it happens. The point of our efforts is to go out on patrols on a regular basis, videotape what we observe and put the documentation on the Website so every American can see what is happening along the border on a daily basis.”

Spencer advocates the view that the government of Mexico is actively trying to reconquer the American Southwest. “The goal of the Mexican government, according to Spencer, is to exploit the freedoms of liberal democracy in order to seize control over the United States, sending waves of Mexicans to break into the country and "recolonialize" land that Mexico lost in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo at the end of the Mexican-American War.”

“The United States is being invaded by Mexico, with hostile intent. Its goal is to reverse the results of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It is achieving this goal by demographic warfare. Mexico will never reform policies that stifle growth because to do so would run counter to its goal of conquest by migration.”

“Spencer believes the aim is to create a sovereign state, "Republica del Norte," the Republic of the North, that would combine the American Southwest with the northern Mexican states and eventually merge with Mexico.”

He currently believes that Mexico wants to create Aztlan out of the South Western area of the United states, as indicated by some promotional materials he sells on his website, [http://www.americanpatrol.com www.americanpatrol.com] . The promotional matter depicts a map of Aztlan, and the website also has depictions of Aztlan on the site as well.

Voice of Citizens Together/American Patrol

This organization was founded in 1992 by Glenn Spencer, one of the leading voices in the civilian patrol movement. Inspired by the race riots that broke out in Los Angeles in 1992, Spencer formed a neighborhood organization, Valley Citizens Together, which was subsequently renamed as interest expanded. Spencer launched a newsletter that linked the various social problems facing Los Angeles, including poverty, violence, illiteracy, and white flight, to illegal immigration. Spencer’s organization was an active participant in the “Save Our State” movement, a loose coalition of anti-illegal immigration organizations that advocated for the mass deportation of illegal immigrants. The movement culminated with Proposition 187, which would have expelled illegal immigrants from public schools and denied them health and social services. Voices of Citizens Together gathered 40,000 signatures to help put Proposition 187 on the ballot; in 1994 Proposition 187 passed as a referendum with widespread support. However, a federal district court halted implementation of Proposition 187 in 1994, and California Governor Gray Davis subsequently pursued mediation in 1999 rather than an appeal, which effectively nullified its provisions. - Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report for Congress, Civilian Patrols Along the Border: Legal and Policy Issues, April 7, 2006.

American Border Patrol

In August 2002, Glenn Spencer moved to Arizona and formed this organization to actively patrol the border. American Border Patrol uses cameras, sensors, “hawkeye” spotters, and unmanned aerial vehicles to identify suspected border intruders (The organization has outfitted three model airplanes with cameras which are designed to home in on ground sensors triggered by people walking in the desert). Once identified, the intruders are videotaped whenever possible and reported to the United States Border Patrol. Video of their aerial patrols of the border are also available on the organization’s website. According to Spencer, American Border Patrol differs from other civilian patrol groups operating in Arizona in that their volunteers do not carry firearms and do not attempt to detain migrants, but rather focus on documenting border intrusions. Despite this disclaimer, however, Spencer was sentenced to a year of probation and fined $2,500 for recklessly firing a gun after a neighbor discovered bullets had been fired into her garage door. - Congressional Research Service (CRS) Report for Congress, Civilian Patrols Along the Border: Legal and Policy Issues, April 7, 2006.

The use of 'model airplane'-type UAVs was scrapped in 2005. Presently a manned Cessna aircraft with high-tech camera and infrared equipment is used to monitor activities along the border.

Tactical Operations Unit

The American Border Patrol maintains a tactical operations unit, although neither Spencer nor anyone else from American Border Patrol has made any public statements concerning the unit, its composition, or its purpose. Public acknowledgment of its existence has been limited to the ABP merchandize page, where the unit’s shoulder patch is offered for sale. A photo of the patch is displayed along with a description of both the patch and the unit it represents, which reads inpart: “Official shoulder patch of the American Border Patrol Tactical Operations Unit. Worn by the elite "Tac-Ops" unit while on patrol.”

The patch is circular, with the words “American Border Patrol Tac Ops” being displayed along its edge. The interior shows three symbols displayed in silhouette: 1) an outline of the continental United States. 2) a barbed wire fence used to represent the border fence. 3) Tactical crosshairs (reticles) from a riflescope. Tactical reticles differ from those used by hunters in that they have reference points (mil dots, or marks) built into them for accurately estimating the distance from the shooter to the target at several hundred meters. This allows the shooter to accurately estimate bullet drop at ranges beyond what the unaided human eye can reliably estimate. Such reticles are normally employed by snipers, as they are of little use at close to moderate ranges where the unaided eye can accurately judge ranges. According to ABP management, the reticle is used to represent surveillance from a distance, and the lines help to determine distances. The reticle was modeled from many different binoculars and spotting scopes. ABP officially maintains a strict non-apprehension, non-contact policy.

WMD demonstration

Spencer staged a demonstration in 2004 of a person carrying a small backpack over the border in order to show how easy it would be for a terrorist to smuggle a very small weapon of mass destruction into the United States. He did this to demonstrate how the US/Mexico border is unsecured against terrorists, such as Al Qaeda.

Organizations' Designation / Related Organizations

American Border Patrol is a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. Its online presence is the website “Glenn Spencer’s American Patrol Report”

Voice of Citizens Together (VCT) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit corporation that now acts as the political wing of American Border Patrol.

Glenn Spencer’s American Patrol Report

Spencer maintains a web site officially named Glenn Spencer’s American Patrol Report; however, it is more commonly known simply as American Patrol Report. It details immigration concerns important to Spencer and members of his American Border Patrol, including crimes committed by illegal aliens, immigration legislation, and political personalities involved in the immigration debate. It functions primarily as a blog, being updated daily. Much of the site consists of links to various news organizations and often to anti-immigration blogs. Spencer posts links from his site to the original article/web site, along with a new headline he has supplied. Typically the new headline is used to convey his view.

Spencer has appeared twice on CNN’s television program "Lou Dobbs Tonight", and his web site often links to transcripts of that show when the show covers immigration reform. Here too Spencer uses his own headlines to convey his view; for example when Dobbs interviewed Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, the story was tiltled: “Kiss Los Angeles Goodbye, L.A. is a Mexican City - Only Military Action Will Get It Back” [http://www.americanpatrol.com/06-FEATURES/060328-TRAITOR-VILLY/060328_Feature.html]

The site also caries some original content, including editorials, along with endorsements of specific candidates, legislation, and ballot initiatives. Additionally it caries information on how to report suspected illegal aliens to the USBP.

Spencer also uses his web site to accuse legal residents and US citizens, who allegedly support the cause of the illegal aliens, of crimes such as treason, sedition, or conspiracy. Members of the Republican Party who disagree with Spencer's stand on immigration are commonly labeled “RINO” (Republican in name only), while members of the Bush administration are often accused of elaborate conspiracies centered on creating a new world order to be run by the Council on Foreign Relations or other “Shadow government”. Spencer has used his web site to call for the impeachment of President Bush for undermining the US Constitution and pursuing globalist policies

Spencer and his website have been accused on numerous occasions of being racist. The "links" section of the website contains links to sites--such as American Renaissance--which have been categorized by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a racist group. American Patrol is itself also named as a hate group website by the SPLC and the Anti-Defamation League.

The web site is maintained by Voice of Citizens Together/American Patrol; however, the "Donate" link states that donations are for the American Border Patrol, and therefore tax-deductible. [http://www.americanpatrol.com/ADMINISTRATION/Donate.html]

Racism

Spencer has been referred to as a racist, a charge he staunchly denies. Groups such as the Anti-Defamation League and the Southern Poverty Law Center take the opposite view, with the Anti-Defamation League stating: Spencer’s rhetoric departed sharply from that of legitimate immigration reform groups; Spencer did not target immigration so much as he targeted Hispanics, particularly those of Mexican origin, regardless of whether they were immigrants or not. Many of his writings and comments were simply thinly veiled diatribes against “Mexicans” (Spencer rarely differentiated between Mexicans and Americans of Mexican descent).

Statements such as the following have fueled the debate: "The United States and Mexico are two entirely different nations," Spencer declares. "The United States has as its founders people who came here for intellectual reasons, freedom of religion. Mexico was founded by a group of people who came to plunder, the conquistadors.... We have a clash of civilizations: the pilgrims versus the conquistadors, the civilization based on Newton's Principia Mathematica and the great philosophers of Europe versus the blood-and-sand character of Mexico, which is based on Aztec warriors and the conquistadors. We are asked to absorb millions of people from this culture; we are unable to assimilate them, so they are asking for their culture to be maintained here in ours. This is a direct threat to the Age of Reason, to the ascent of man, and will end in a massive conflict. It has to be stopped." [http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=magazine.article&issue=soj0307&article=030720]

"The problem we have with phony documents in California can be linked to a characteristic of the Mexican culture, a characteristic Mexicans who assimilate drop." [http://www.americanpatrol.com/EVENTS/CCCtranscript990719spencer.html]

“Americans, especially white Americans, should get out of California -- now, before it is too late to salvage the equity they have in their homes and the value of their businesses.” [http://www.americanpatrol.com/FEATURES/030727-DAVIS-INVADER-LICENSES/FightOrFlightGS_030728.html]

"The Mexican culture is based on deceit. Chicanos and Mexicanos lie as a means of survival. Fabricating false IDs is just another extension of that culture... [which] condones everything from the most lowly misdemeanor to murder in the highest levels of government." [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=174]

“If we lose the United States to that cesspool of a culture (referring to Mexican culture)…” [http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/05/22/vigilante/index.html?pn=4]

Spencer and White Nationalists

American Renaissance

Spencer has a long history of association with the white nationalist magazine American Renaissance (often abbreviated as Amren). It describes itself as a "literate, undeceived journal of race, immigration, and the decline of civility", while its detractors accuse it of being racist and white supremacist. Jared Taylor, its publisher stated in May 2006: “I started American Renaissance 17 years ago in order to awaken whites to the crisis they face and to encourage them to unite in defending their legitimate interests as a race”

Spencer was one of the keynote speakers at the fifth biennial American Renaissance Conference held February 2002. The theme of the conference was “In Defense of Western Man”, and was advertised as "In all parts of the world, whites are afraid to speak out in their own interests. The costs of 'diversity,' racial differences in IQ, the threat of non-white immigration — politicians and the media are afraid to discuss what these things mean for whites and their civilization." [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=106] Spencer’s talk was titled “The Second Mexican-American War” in which he warned that Mexican immigration into the Southwest is nothing less than an unarmed invasion to reconquer land lost in the first Mexican-American War. By failing to halt illegal Mexican immigration, the United States is importing poverty, turning California into a Third-World nation, and inviting secession. In effect, Mexico is supporting the ethnic cleansing of the American Southwest.

Other keynote speakers included Samuel Francis who warned that non-Western immigration is creating an immigrant counter-culture that, if allowed to develop, will outnumber and destroy us. The solution, he said is to “round ‘em up and ship ‘em out.” Richard Lynn explained that “Sub-Saharan Africa is mired in poverty because blacks have, on average, the lowest IQs of any major group. Dr. Lynn warned that large numbers of low-IQ immigrants will undermine Western affluence.”

J. Philippe Rushton explained the methodology of recent research on African intelligence that has led him to conclude that the average African IQ is 70. Dr. Rushton pointed out that it is hard for many people to accept the idea that an entire race could have an average IQ that is, by Western standards, at the borderline of retardation. He argued, however, that a 70 IQ is adequate for functioning in a simple society.

Other attendees included a delegation from Stormfront.org, and members of the neo-Nazi group National Alliance. Stormfront White Nationalist Community is a prominent white nationalist / white pride / white supremacist Internet forum founded by former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard Don Black. The 2002 American Renaissance Conference was heavily promoted on Stormfront.org, with Black himself posting: "Several people here, including me, plan to attend the American Renaissance Conference in Herndon, Virginia (suburban D.C.) the weekend of February 22-24." Even with the backing of Stormfont.org the conference was fairly small, with only 258 registered guests.

Council of Conservative Citizens

In July 1999 Glenn Spencer was a featured speaker at the Council of Conservative Citizens Conference, a Neo-confederate organization, where he spoke on Mexican immigration and his theory of Reconquista.

The ADL describes the CCC as a white separatist group that “Advances its ideology by inflaming fears and resentments, among Southern whites particularly, with regard to black-on-white crime, non-white immigration, attacks on the public display of the Confederate flag, and other issues related to "traditional" Southern culture.” It is heavily involved in defending the Confederate flag, and promoting the ideals of the Confederate States of America.

CCC columnist Martin H. Millard wrote against the likely effects of immigration and intermarriage saying: “What will emerge will be just be a slimy brown mass of glop…The genocide being carried out against white people hasn't come with marching armies; instead, it has come with propaganda that is calculated to brainwash whites into happily and willingly jumping into the Neo-Melting Pot, and to their destruction. Genocide via the bedroom chamber is just as long-lasting as genocide via the gas chamber.”

2003 prosecution

On August 2, 2003 Glenn Spencer was charged with firing a weapon in a Sierra Vista residential neighborhood. The Sierra Vista Herald reported that at approximately 9:30pm on August 1, 2003 an off-duty Sheriff’s Deputy heard gunshots coming from Spencer’s home. The Deputy called the Sheriff’s department and officers where sent to investigate, but where unable to make contact with Spencer. The next morning a neighbor reported that her garage door had received gunshot damage, and that a baby crib stored inside the garage had been hit. Officer returned to Spencer’s home, and found empty shell casings on the ground. Spencer told officer’s that he had heard noises outside his home the night before and went to investigate, and that he fired three rounds from a lever-action .357 rifle in an attempt to scare off any intruders. He said that he had been “on-edge” at the time of the incident due to e-mailed death threats, and that his home had previously been burglarized.

Spencer was arrested and charged with three counts of disorderly conduct with a weapon ( each count a felony), a count of felony endangerment and a count of criminal damage (also a felony). In January 2004 he pleaded guilty to one charge of endangering persons with a substantial risk of imminent death (a class 6 felony), for which he was fined $2,500 and sentenced to a year's probation. He also agreed to pay $601.10 in restitution for the damage he did to the garage. Upon successful completion of his probation, the felony charge was reduced to misdemeanor status.

After this incident Spencer moved the ABP headquarters from an upscale residential subdivision located in Sierra Vista, to a secluded convert|104|acre|km2|sing=on ranch on the border near Naco, Arizona.

Radio program

Spencer formerly had a weekly radio program called American Patrol on Sundays from 1-3 pm PT, broadcast on radio station KRLA AM 870 (formerly used the call letters KIEV) Glendale - Los Angeles, California. His guests included White Nationalist leader Jared Taylor, Kevin B. MacDonald and Roger Barnett.

Publications

*"Immigration: Threatening the Bonds of Our Union", Parts I and II (video)
*"Conquest of Aztlan: Threatening the Bonds of Our Union", Parts III (DVD): billed as a documentary that describes how “A fifth column of subversives is plotting to recolonize the United States.” Sold exclusively by WorldNetDaily

ee also

*Immigration reduction
*Ranch Rescue

References

* [http://opencrs.cdt.org/rpts/RL33353_20060407.pdf Civilian Patrols Along the Border: Legal and Policy Issues - Congressional Research Service]
* [http://www.bluecorncomics.com/spencer.htm They Keep Coming, and Coming, and Coming...material from the LA Times, 7/15/01]
* [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=978 Southern Poverty Law Center - The Nativists ]
* [http://www.borderaction.org/PDFs/BAN-Vigilante%20Report.pdf Hate or Heroism by the Border Action Network (BAN)]

External links

* [http://borderstories.org/index.php/sierra-vista-virtual-vigilante.html A Border Stories profile of Glenn Spencer]
* [http://www.americanpatrol.com/ American Patrol Report] Officially known as “Glenn Spencer’s American Patrol Report”
* [http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?sid=175 Glenn Spencer's controversial letter] Letter mentioned above.
* [http://www.americanpatrol.com/06-FEATURES/060322-MEXICAN-WAR-II/060322_Feature.html Mexican War II] Glenn Spencer commenting on upcoming "war."
* [http://www.frontpagemag.com/articles/readArticle.asp?ID=21309%00 Originating source of "Mexican War II"]
* [http://www.americanpatrol.com/_PROMOS/promo.html Glenn's Aztlan Promo stating that Aztlan will be taken out of US territory]
* [http://www.shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1836 Glenn's DVD depicting the Aztlan conquest of the SW US]