As previously discussed, the "Unite to Fight Against Illegal Immigration" conference is being held in Las Vegas this weekend. The L.A. Times offers a report in "Immigration Activists Gather". The AP has a variously-titled and bylined story (non-bylined in "Anti-illegal immigration conference opens in Nevada", "Anti-illegal immigration conference opens in Nevada" from Christina Almeida, then apparently rewritten by Adam Goldman as "Protests Hit Illegal Immigration Summit"). All three briefly mention around 200 protesters outside: they called those inside Nazis and racists (LAT), and waved either American and Mexican flags (Almeida) or just Mexican flags (Goldman).

You can see a picture of the protesters here. While it might be a case of selective cropping, I don't see any American flags in that picture, just Mexican ones and, in the background, a Guatemalan flag.

The non-bylined AP story quotes the president of the RAZ/Pac (full name: "Raza Political Action Coalition" or "Race/Group Political Action Coalition") as saying that opposition to the costs of illegal immigration "is a cover for racism".

An interesting article comes from Riverside's Press-Enterprise, entitled "Immigration showdown seen". It tells a tale of two conferences, combining the AP report with reporting on the "La Tierra es de Todos" ("The Land is Everyone's") conference held at University of California at Riverside:

...The UCR event drew students, union activists, attorneys, civil rights advocates, communists, socialists and a member of Union del Barrio, a group that says the southwestern states were stolen from the Mexican people and should be separated from the United States...

[The head of UCR's MEChA chapter] predicted tense confrontations if Minuteman Project volunteer border watchers patrol San Diego [, saying:] "If they come to San Diego there will be a big response."