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
The Tanton Network
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
CPAC 2013: NumbersUSA to Appear on Panel with Pamela Geller, Robert Spencer, Frank Gaffney
Next time NumbersUSA’s Rosemary Jenks, the anti-immigrant group’s Director of Government Relations, comes a-calling to offices on The Hill, asking staffers to indulge the group’s research on immigration policy, the elected representatives and those staffers who find her at their … 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
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
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
NumbersUSA Promoting Population Control Book Co-Edited by PFIR President
Last week Melanie Oubre, NumbersUSA’s local activism coordinator, wrote a blog titled, “Prominent Conservationists Call for Immigration Reductions in New Book.” The “Prominent Conservatives” that NumbersUSA is referring to are none other than its pseudo-liberal co-horts in the anti-immigrant movement, … Continued
The Grover Norquist of Immigration, Roy Beck of NumbersUSA, Visits Politicians in Australia
On Thursday, January 17, the Sunshine Coast Daily newspaper in Australia reported on Roy Beck’s current tour of Australia, where he was set to speak with politicians and activists in at least four cities. The article features a number of … Continued