New 蜜桃传媒 Report: Three leading anti-immigration groups share extremist roots
Today, the Southern Poverty Law Center is releasing a new report, , examining the three Washington, D.C., organizations standing in the way of comprehensive immigration reform. The report shows that they are part of a network of groups created by a man who has been at the heart of the white nationalist movement for decades.
The Nativist Lobby describes how the (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA were founded and funded by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who operates a racist publishing company and has written that to maintain American culture 鈥渁 European-American majority鈥� is required. The report reveals that Tanton, who still on FAIR鈥檚 board of directors, founded the racist and has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, white nationalist intellectuals and Klan lawyers for decades 鈥� correspondence documented by his own writings stored at a University of Michigan library.
The report shows that FAIR has been aware of Tanton鈥檚 views and activities for years.
FAIR, whose members have testified frequently before Congress, has hired as key officials men who also joined white supremacist groups. It has promoted racist conspiracy theories. And it has even accepted more than $1 million from the Pioneer Fund, a racist foundation devoted to proving a connection between race and intelligence, the report found. In 2007, FAIR was designated as a hate group by the 蜜桃传媒.
The report also examines how the Center for Immigration Studies 鈥� which bills itself as an 鈥渋ndependent鈥� scholarly think tank 鈥� began its life as a FAIR program and continues to produce dubious and sometimes completely false studies furthering FAIR鈥檚 anti-immigration agenda. It鈥檚 a vision described by Tanton in a 1985 letter in which he wrote that CIS would produce reports 鈥渇or later passage to FAIR, the activist organization, to remedy.鈥�
Similarly, NumbersUSA, a group that has achieved dramatic policy successes, began its life as a Tanton foundation program, the report found. NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck has even been described by Tanton as his 鈥渉eir apparent.鈥� He also edited The Immigration Invasion, a book by Tanton and a colleague that was so raw in its immigrant bashing that Canadian border authorities have banned it as hate literature.
