Minutemen making roads in Iowa - Anti-immigration group has chapters in 11 counties - (key primary state)

“Although organizers say most Iowans have never heard of them, the controversial anti-immigration group has been active in the state for more than a year. Members say they are developing chapters in Iowa because the state and country have reached a crisis point in immigration enforcement.

The group alarms many who call it extremist.

“We would put the Minuteman movement as a potentially violent fringe of the nativist movement in this country,” said Devin Burghart, who tracks anti-immigrant groups as director of the Chicago-based Center for New Community’s Building Democracy Initiative.”

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