The leaders of the anti-immigration movement in the United States have long claimed that they are not motivated by racism.
But a new report by the Southern Poverty Law Center reveals that John Tanton, the architect of the movement and founder of the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), has a more than 30-year history of racial extremism.
Based on Tanton's personal correspondence, lodged at the University of Michigan's Bentley Historical Library, the report shows that Tanton has been in the midst of the White nationalist scene for decades. He has corresponded frequently with leading white nationalist thinkers, race scientists and Holocaust deniers. He encouraged a major donor to read the work of a radical anti-Semitic professor to "give you a new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life." And he suggested that the board of FAIR, on which he sits, discuss the professor's theories on the Jews.
Tanton's organizations have been high-profile players in the immigration debate. FAIR officials, for example, have testified numerous times before Congress. The organization is listed as a hate group by the SPLC.
Other groups founded by Tanton include the Center for Immigration Studies, a group whose studies are often quoted by the media, and the Restrictionist NumbersUSA. Despite the veneer of respectability presented by these groups, it's difficult to misconstrue Tanton's words in a Dec. 10, 1993, letter to Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecology professor.
"I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that," Tanton wrote.
On Jan. 26, 1996, he wrote Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA (and then an employee of Tanton's foundation U.S. Inc.), questioning the ability of Latinos to govern California.
Tanton wondered "whether the minorities who are going to inherit California (85% of the lower-grade school children are now 'minorities' -- demography is destiny) can run an advanced society?"
Tanton and FAIR often assert they are being unfairly attacked by their critics, but Tanton's own words offer the strongest evidence to the contrary.
In a March 2008 webcast, Mr. Potok summed up the SPLC’s definition of what exactly constituted a “hate†group by stating that “…a “hate group†has nothing to do with criminality… [or] potential for violence...†Rather, as Potok put it, “It’s all about ideology.†Basically, "hate crimes" are "thought crimes". (http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=301)
The SPLC claimed over $200 million in its Endowment Fund last year (http://www.splcenter.org/pdf/static/SPLCfinancial2007.pdf), making it one of the most profitable non-profit organizations in the country. The top four officers of this "charity", including Mr. Potok and multi-millionaire Dees, earn a combined salary of well over a million dollars a year. It is therefore necessary to maintain a constant fear campaign, which for PR professionals like Mr. Potok and direct marketing Hall of Famer Dees, is all in a day's work.
Basically, if you made millions by finding "hate" it would behoove you to find it behind every rock and tree. Being the sole arbiter of "hate", designating it by decree, without any oversight, review or regulation, doesn't hurt either.
Keep the hate and racism out of our country, as it has no place here. When, and only when, people are forced to abide by our laws and enter America by LEGAL means ONLY, will they ever be worthy of residing here and be considered for citizenship.
There’s a new website on Dr. John Tanton, at johntanton.org/. If you’re not familiar with Dr. Tanton’s life and work, the website says briefly that:
John H. Tanton, M.D. is publisher of The Social Contract, and served as editor for its first 8 years. He is a retired eye surgeon whose boyhood on a farm made him into an ardent conservationist and advocate for the environment. His conviction that continued human population growth was a large part of the conservation problem led him to chair the National Sierra Club Population Committee (1971-74), and to the national board of Zero Population Growth (1973-78, including a term as president from 1975-77). In 1979, as immigration grew to be the significant part of the U.S. population problem, he organized the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) based in Washington, D.C. He is the author of numerous articles, editorials and opinion pieces, many of which can be found by searching under his name in The Social Contract archives.
Of course, there people are only familiar with Dr. Tanton’s work because they’ve read attacks on him. He’s been targeted by Linda Chavez and the SPLC among others, who complained about a memo he wrote about population demographics...
for entire article: http://blog.vdare.com/archives/2008/09/19/website-in-honor-of-dr-john-tanton/
The sentiment has nothing to do with LATINO but does have everything to do with ILLEGAL with no regard to your skin color, creed, nationality or culture. Illegal immigrants are comprised of many nationalities. It is true, though, that 75-80% of illegal immigrants are Hispanic, which is due largely to Latin America’s proximity to our borders. If these Hispanics that cry racism because the vast majority of Americans are against ALL illegal immigration want to feel "less persecuted", stop illegally entering our country. By doing so you will have removed yourselves from the equation and issue. However, you will still see most Americans against ALL illegal immigration, with no regard to race, culture or ethnicity.
ILLEGAL is ILLEGAL and nothing changes that fact
My partner has been told more than once to go back to where he's from - which would mean moving from Texas to Colorado ...
Can someone explain why an illiterate pregnant Mexican woman, (or as far south as Nicaragua or Guatamala) can sneak or be helped to cross the Rio Grande over to El Paso,
Goes into labor,... rushed to the Public Hospital in a free ambulance, has a free delivery, and gives birth to an American Citizen. God help the HOSPITAL if the baby has a medical emergency. $15,000. turns into $1,500,000.
The baby will be footprinted and issued a US Social Security card before it stops crying. I think the baby should stay a Mexican. Sarah, can you fix this?
American egotism at work; a person born in any other part of the world to an American parent is still an American. IF it's good for the goose it's good for the gander; any ONE born on the soil of the United States is an AMERICAN!
Get to f*uck over it!
American is one of the FEW countries in the world that has birthright citizenship. In that respect, I wish we had the sense of other countries. It's ridiculous that 8-months-pregnant women are swimming across the Rio Grande and WE'RE left paying the bill for their kid.
"any ONE born on the soil of the United States is an AMERICAN!"
Good for the goose? Where's your logic?
If an American gives birth in another country, that child is an American, then why should a Mexican give birth to a U.S. citizen and not a Mexican?