Free Republic

The violent unrest that has broken out in multiple towns across England and Northern Ireland this week feels simultaneously shocking and familiar. Rioters have rampaged across more than 15 towns and cities, looting businesses, injuring police officers, attacking mosques and targeting hotels that house asylum seekers. Britain has had sporadic outbreaks of semi-organized mob violence for decades, including brawls by infamous “firms” of soccer hooligans in the 1980s and ’90s, an outbreak of race rioting in northern England in 2001 and a spate of rioting and looting centered on London in 2011. But some circumstances are markedly different. While the...

A Bay Area group that supports immigrant workers and opposes citizens who take it upon themselves to patrol the US border with Mexico held a rally Sunday in San Francisco's Mission District to welcome a caravan of migrant worker activists on a 25 city national tour. From San Francisco, the group will travel to Sacramento, then on, across the country, eventually to the nation's capitol where they will lobby legislators to oppose the proposed Border Protection, Antiterrorism, and Illegal Immigration Control Act of 2005 or HR 4437. That bill would expand enforcement of undocumented border crossings and toughen penalties for...