John Tanton

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

Report Details FAIR, Other Groups’ Connections to Sterilization Drug

The Center for New Community, a national civil rights and racial justice organization, recently released The Quinacrine Report: Sterilization, Modern-Day Eugenics, and the Anti-Immigrant Movement. The well-researched document details the connections of top anti-immigrant leaders to the development and funding … 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

SOTU Address and Senate Committee Hearing Pivotal to Immigration Reform

Follow us this morning on @Imagine2050 and @nativismwatch as we fact-check and comment on the Senate Judiciary Hearing on immigration reform. Yesterday and today are two of the most important days for the immigration debate this year: yesterday, the president … Continued

NumbersUSA Director Appears on Anti-Muslim & -Islam Radio Show

It seems some powerful players within this country’s anti-immigrant movement are moving to further solidify the intersections of their messaging and work—and the relationships developing from them—with those orchestrating the ever-emerging Islamophobia movement. Last December, for example, the Center for … Continued

Islamophobia

Press Conference Brings Together Leaders of Islamophobia, Anti-Immigrant, & White Nationalist Movements

In what is yet another recent and troubling collaboration between the long-established anti-immigrant movement and the ever-emerging Islamophobia movement in this country, at 1pm next Tuesday, Feb 5, the group America’s Survival will hold a press conference at the National … Continued