On April 9, G. Russel “Rusty” Childress, head of the nativist group Remember 1986 (R86), took to his group’s Facebook page to vent: “We cannot afford to become a Country of Entitlement by, [sic] and for the outlaws: The Illegal … Continued
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Flocking Together: Jason Richwine & the Legacy of the Pioneer Fund’s “Race Realism”
In the fall of 1990, Jared Taylor wrote to John Tanton, father of the established anti-immigrant movement, in search of advice regarding the launch of the New Century Foundation (NCF)–a group that, under his own leadership, Talyor hoped would eventually … Continued
FAIR Honors President of Anti-Immigrant Organization it Helped Fund
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) has honored Ron Woodard, President of NC Listen, with its ‘”We The People’ Leadership Award.” Woodard was presented with the award at a banquet during FAIR’s annual radio and lobbying event, Hold Their … Continued
John Morton Resigns to Open Gourmet Snail Farm
Late last night, John Morton, the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, sent a heartfelt missive to his agents and dozens of congressional staff preceding his official resignation today. In hopes of offering the public a rare opportunity to look … Continued
Cross-Post: “Connecting the Anti-Immigrant Movement to Coercive Sterilization”
Women of color, especially immigrant women and their bodies have long been a battleground by racist anti-immigrant forces. They have been used as guinea pigs for medical experiments and deemed criminal for daring to migrate with their children, unborn and … Continued
Immigration
CIS Head Defends Fringe Population Control Leader
Last week, Mark Krikorian, executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), went out on a limb to defend Phil Cafaro, Board President of the deceptively-named anti-immigrant organization, Progressives for Immigration Reform. “I’ve met Phil Cafaro and he strikes … Continued
Paper Trail: Countering the Center for Immigration Studies’s Lies of Omission
In March 2004, Mark Krikorian wrote the following about his organization, the Center for Immigration Studies, in a piece published on the paleo-Conservative website National Review Online (NRO): “CIS is not now, nor has it ever been, a recipient of money … Continued
Word Choice: How FAIR Helped Transform “Population Control” into “Immigration Restriction”
In December of 1995, according to the Bergen Record, Donald Mann opened an office in Washington, DC for his population control organization, Negative Population Growth (NPG). Tasked with running the office was someone named Sharon Stein, “a veteran Washington consultant … Continued
PFIR Exaggerates U.S. Population Growth Under Immigration Reform
On February 10, the deceptively-named Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR) posted a report on its spin-off website, Immigration EIS, warning that the US population could exceed 1 billion by 2200 if current immigration reform proposals were enacted. In this draft, … Continued
Colorado ASSET moves forward: the opposition grumbles as immigrant youth speak out
Persistence paid off last month, as undocumented students moved one step closer to equal access to higher education. On Thursday, January 24, the Colorado Senate Education Committee approved a bill called Advancing Students for a Stronger Economy Tomorrow (ASSET), a proposed law … Continued