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June 16, 2017 11:53 am
Anti-Immigration Groups Aren’t Going To Let Trump Stop At Cancelling DAPA
…promises; it lists cancelling “unconstitutional executive orders” as a “broken promise”: FAIR, which is the most prominent of the web of anti-immigration groups founded by John Tanton, an activist whose…
December 21, 2018 2:29 pm
YouTube is Serving Ads From an Anti-Immigrant Hate Group
…order to preserve, according to founder John Tanton, a European-American majority in the U.S. SPLC has documented Tanton’s connections to white nationalists and anti-Semites. Since its founding in 1979, the…
June 7, 2013 10:28 am
Meet the Black American Leadership Alliance, the Anti-Immigrant Movement’s Newest Front Group
…a New Community notes, BALA seems to be running entirely through another FAIR front group, one of many stemming from white nationalist John Tanton, misleadingly called “Progressives for Immigration Reform”…
January 30, 2014 1:43 pm
You Don’t Say: Republicans Admit Anti-Immigrant Movement Driven By Racism
…The misleadingly named Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the movement “think tank” Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and Numbers USA were all founded by John Tanton, an activist who…
March 6, 2014 4:04 pm
CPAC Once Again Shuts Out Gay & Atheist Groups, Welcomes White Nationalists
…the network of anti-immigrant groups connected to white nationalist John Tanton. The Center for New Community explains: ProEnglish was established in 1994 with the oversight of its founding chairman, the…
October 30, 2015 4:33 pm
Republican Leaders Address Event Organized By White Nationalist-Linked Publisher
…was a central topic at the event. CNC writes: The annual Writers’ Workshop is the brainchild of white nationalist and founder of the organized anti-immigrant movement, John Tanton. The meetings…
June 17, 2014 10:51 am
Tillis Borrowed ‘Traditional Population’ Phrase From Anti-Immigrant Extremists
…The Social Contract, the journal founded by anti-immigrant movement godfather John Tanton frequently uses the phrase “traditional Americans” to mean non-immigrants, and specifically white non-immigrants. One example, from an essay…
May 10, 2016 2:22 pm
Dan Stein: Immigration Advocates Want To ‘Radically Alter’ The ‘Ethnic Base’ Of America
…group’s opposition to immigration isn’t “just” meant “to preserve the ethnic base” of America, FAIR’s founder, John Tanton, was less shy about his goals, once writing, “I have come to…
August 2, 2017 11:45 am
Trump Makes Good On Promise To Extreme Anti-Immigrant Groups With Proposal To Cut Legal Immigration
…down on refugee resettlement. Ira Mehlman, a spokesman for FAIR, called it “the perfect bill.” FAIR’s founder, John Tanton, has openly fretted about increases in nonwhite immigration, warning of a…
November 28, 2016 4:38 pm
Anti-Immigrant Group With White Nationalist Roots Hopes To Guide Trump Immigration Policy
…central organization in a network of groups founded by John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist who has created an infrastructure to support immigration restrictions while toying with the ideas of white…