To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (123256 ) 5/14/2008 2:26:11 PM From: one_less Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976 Follow the money. Not because of their charges against the minutemen. They are battling the minutemen because the minutemen represent a threat to their various illegal activities. However, their backing is from Latino mafia, cartel, and gang leaders who are heavily involved in various criminal ventures including racially motivated terrorism and killing against blacks. They generally have a strong anti-gringo perspective which stems from historical economic oppression but is also focused on color and political power in modern times. Acting on orders from the Mexican Mafia, Latino gang members in Southern California are terrorizing and killing blacks. Intelligence Report Winter 2006splcenter.org >The L.A. County Sheriff reported in 2000 that 23 percent of inmates in county jails were deportable, according to the New York Times. >In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide in the first half of 2004 (which totaled 1,200 to 1,500) targeted illegal aliens. Up to two-thirds of all fugitive felony warrants (17,000) were for illegal aliens. >The Los Angeles Police Department arrests about 2500 criminally convicted deportees annually, reports the Los Angeles Times.nationalreview.com Three Los Angeles members of a Latino gang known as the Avenues were convicted and sentenced to life in prison in November for hate crime violations, including killing African Americans in an effort to run them out of predominantly Latino neighborhoods.latimes.com . LOS ANGELES -- A series of deadly racial attacks in the jails of this sprawling metropolis has cast a spotlight on long-simmering but little-discussed tensions between a shrinking black presence and an ascendant Latino one in Californiawashingtonpost.com Federal prosecutors Tuesday accused members of a Latino street gang of a violent campaign to drive African American rivals out of their South Los Angeles area neighborhood, resulting in at least 20 killings in the last three years.red-alerts.com .