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 Dan Stein, Federation for American Immigration Reform"It's almost like [Asians and Hispanics] are getting into competitive breeding." ---------------------- John Tanton, Mastermind of the Anti-Immigrant Movement"In the bacteriology lab, we have culture plates. You put a bug in there and it starts growing and gets bigger and bigger and bigger. And it grows until it finally fills the whole plate. And it crashes and dies." — John Tanton, 1997, comparing immigrants to bacteria. ---------------------- Roy Beck, Numbers USA'Even illegal aliens deserve humane treatment as they are detected, detained and deported.' –Roy Beck, in "Little-Known Group Claims a Win on Immigration" from the New York Times. ---------------------- Mark Krikorian, Center for Immigration Studies"The effects of illegal immigration aren't that different from those of legal immigration —an illiterate Central American farmer with a green card is just as unsuited for a 21st-century economy as an illiterate Central American farmer without a green card." – Mark Krikorian, National Review Online. |
There are lots of folks in Washington pretending to be experts on immigration. Some are leaders of "think tanks" that blame immigrants for global warming. Others head up hate groups masquerading as grassroots organizations. They flood Congress with scary faxes.
Here's the problem: the Republican Party, and some members of the Democratic Party, have been seduced by this scary band of slick-talking immigration "wolves" in sheep's clothing.
Well, it's a new day, and politicians must decide whether to embrace change or get left behind. We've taken the Southern Poverty Law Center's latest report exposing these guys and built a website where people can take action. You can watch a new video and vote on the worst of the worst of what these "Anti-Immigrant Wolves" have said.
Check it out:
AmericasVoiceOnline.org/Wolves
We know that organizations like the Center for Immigration Studies, Numbers USA, and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) are not mainstream voices on immigration, but our politicians and media need to know it, too.
These are the same folks that work behind the scenes to turn every Congressional debate into a fight on immigration. Most recently, they whipped up fear over the kids' health bill, which included legal immigrant children. And they lost, big time, thanks to all of you.
We need your help to make sure that these voices of intolerance are no longer considered mainstream.
Please watch our new video, vote for the "Top Anti-Immigrant Wolf," and help us spread the word about this effort:
AmericasVoiceOnline.org/Wolves
Thanks for everything you're doing to counter this extremism.
Sincerely,
Adam Luna
America's Voice
The Nativist Lobby:
Three Washington, D.C.-based immigration-restriction organizations stand at the nexus of the American nativist movement: the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA. Although on the surface they appear quite different — the first, the country's best-known anti-immigrant lobbying group; the second, an "independent" think tank; and the third, a powerful grassroots organizer — they are fruits of the same poisonous tree.
FAIR, CIS and NumbersUSA are all part of a network of restrictionist organizations conceived and created by John Tanton, the "puppeteer" of the nativist movement and a man with deep racist roots. As the first article in this report shows, Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has met with leading white supremacists, promoted anti-Semitic ideas, and associated closely with the leaders of a eugenicist foundation once described by a leading newspaper as a "neo-Nazi organization." He has made a series of racist statements about Latinos and worried that they were outbreeding whites. At one point, he wrote candidly that to maintain American culture, "a European-American majority" is required.
Key Quotes from the Report:
"Three Washington, D.C. – based immigration-restriction organizations stand at the nexus of the American nativist movement: the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA. Although on the surface thy appear quite different – the first, the country's best-known anti-immigrant lobbying group; the second, an "independent" think tank; and the third, a powerful grassroots organization – they are fruits of the same poisonous tree."
"CIS' creation was part of a carefully thought-out strategy aimed at creating a set of complementary institutions to cultivate the nativist cause – groups including the Federation for American immigration Reform (FAIR) and NumbersUSA."
"…these organizations are frequently treated as if they were legitimate, mainstream commentators on immigration. But the truth is that they were all conceived and birthed by a man who sees America under threat by non-white immigrants."
On FAIR: "The nativist lobby's action arm has an ugly record of promoting racist ideas, conspiracy theories and anti-immigrant hatred."
On CIS: "The nativist lobby's supposedly ‘independent' think tank has never found any aspect of immigration it likes."
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