Center for Immigration Studies Picks Up Torch on Greening Bigotry

April 1, 2010 by Rebecca Poswolsky · Comment
Filed under: Ecopolitics, Immigration 

reb_pos_desert_treeAnti-immigrant groups are eyeing America’s environmental movement in the hopes that it will serve their controversial agenda.

Immigration and climate change might not seem to have much in common, but a bitter battle has been waging between the anti-immigrant movement and mainstream environmental groups for decades. The John Tanton Network is, as usual, deeply involved in this conflict.

The latest example of anti-immigrant attacks on environmentalists comes from Center for Immigration Studies, a controversial anti-immigrant group founded by John Tanton, who also founded the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Read more