Anti-Immigrant OrganizationsThe following categories represent the main focus
areas of anti-immigrant groups in the United States. Although some of
these groups might fit under several categories, each is listed only
once.
General
National
American Coalition for Immigration Reform
An organization of people seeking to pressure
lawmakers to restrict immigration through grassroots lobbying.Calls for action through email alerts asking members to contact their
representatives on specified immigration-related issues.
American Immigration Control (AIC)
Founded in 1983, claims to be the nation’s largest
grassroots lobby for immigration reform with more than 250,000 members.Says
that it seeks to preserve harmony and “our” common Western values, which
they say most immigrants do not share, through immigration control.Publishes Immigration
Watch.AIC is headed by Robert
H. Goldsborough.
American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF)
Publishes a large catalog of “immigration crisis” material,
including Immigration and Nation: a Biblical View, The Path to National
Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism, and Amnesty for
Illegal Aliens: Repealing the Rule of Law.Distributes
Jean Raspail’s Camp of the Saints.Expresses concern for what it believes is an endangered White Christian
culture and calls for a return to national quotas within immigration
policies. Worked with FAIR and NumbersUSA on a recent billboard campaign.Had
received more than $190,000 from the Pioneer Fund through 1998.In
1999, had a $280,000 budget.Head
of the organization is John Vinson (see below).
Center for Immigration Studies (CIS)
1522 K Street NW, Suite 820, Washington, DC 20005-1202,
202/466-8185, www.cis.orgThink tank that publishes hundreds of reports,
articles, studies and books (many of which are available through its
website) on the social, political, and economic impact of immigration.Claims
to give “first concern to the broad national interest” and to promote “a
pro-immigrant, low-immigration vision.”Opposes
guest worker programs, legalization, and seeks greater enforcement of
employer sanctions.Produces monthly Backgrounders and
puts out daily email compilations of immigration-related news stories
(see its website, under “Immigration News” to sign up).Has
a budget of about$725,000. Mark
Krikorian is Executive Director and Steven Camarota the Director of Research.
Coalition for the Future American Worker
Coalition of trade, environment, and immigration
reform groups who collectively oppose legalization, guest workers, and
high-tech visas.Among member organizations
are American Immigration Control, Americans for Better Immigration, and
FAIR Congressional Taskforce.Headed
by Roy Beck (see below).
Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America
DASA is directed by Yeh Ling-Ling, an immigrant
from Vietnam, and its Board of Directors and Advisory Board are made
up of a number of people of color.Claims
to advocate for a race-blind immigration policy.Opposes
granting citizenship to U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants,
providing public assistance to noncitizen immigrants, and naturalizing
immigrants who do not speak English. Argues the United States is not
in the position either economically or socially to handle more immigrants
and calls for an immediate halt to all immigration beyond the replacement-level,
which it defines as 200,000 immigrants per year.
Evangelicals for Immigration Reform
c/o Jim Robb, 1601 Kent St., #1100, Arlington, VA
22209, 703/816-8822
Looking to Christ for guidance on domestic immigration
policy, this organization warns that the open borders, which reeked havoc
in the Old Testament, will also plague the United States.They
claim that current policy's failure "to respect social unity invites
a resurgence of nativism" and also disenchants the poor and immigrants
already within the borders.It
calls for a 250,000 person immigration cap with special preference for
spouses, offspring under 18, and those fleeing religious persecution.
Works out of the same office as ProEnglish and NumbersUSA.
Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR)
1666 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC 20009,
202/328-7004, www.fairus.orgFounded in 1979, one of the most prominent anti-immigration
organizations in the country.Garners
support from people across the political spectrum using a combination
of social, economic and environmental arguments.Calls
for immediate moratorium on immigration.Ran
television ads in Iowa, South Carolina and Virginia blaming immigrants
for sprawl.Received $1.2 million
from the Pioneer Fund between 1985 and 1994. Promotes local anti-immigrant
organizations.Founded in 1978
by John Tanton and currently led by Dan Stein (see below).
National Grassroots Alliance
Founded in 1997, a consortium of over forty grassroots
organizations that seek to restrict immigration.Works to coordinate national activities, helps grassroots organizations
get started, in part by seeking funding for these groups and selected
projects, and represents these organizations in Washington, DC. Formed
by a $25,000 donation from FAIR.Headed
by Craig Nelson (see below).
Social Contract Press
Publishes journals and books that support immigration
restriction and calls for strengthening ties to “our” British cultural
roots. According to the Southern
Poverty Law Center, the Social Contract Press "publishes a number of
racist works, including a reprint of the "gripping" 1973 book, The Camp
of the Saints...a French racist fantasy novel about the obliteration
of Western civilization by dark-skinned hordes from India. The novel,
like the race war fantasy The Turner Diaries, has become a key screed
for American white supremacists." Prints a quarterly journal, The Social
Contract (archives available on the web at www.thesocialcontract.com).Founder
and publisher is John Tanton.Washington
editor is Roy Beck.(See below).
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U.S. Border Control
8180 Greensboro Drive, Suite 1070, McLean, Virginia
22102-3860, 703/356-6568, www.usbc.orgAn immigration restriction group founded by Larry
Pratt (see below).Began a pledge
campaign in 1999 to get members of Congress to opposeall
future legalization bills.Was
a member of Coalition Against NAFTA Trucking (CANT). Publishes Border
Alert.
United States Immigration Political Action Committee (USImpac-Coalition)
Founded by Joe McCutchen, a former Arkansas business
owner.The national extension of
MichIMPAC which formed for the purpose of ousting Senator Spencer Abraham
(R-Mich.) who was the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration Chairman (now
is Secretary of Energy in the Bush administration).Through
advertisements targets pro-immigrant legislators.
United to Secure America
A new national coalition that incorporates many
conservative issues under the banner of lowered immigration levels as
a national security measure. Has policy statements on manageable immigration
levels, effective border controls, effective interior enforcement and
visa tracking, and secure identification documents.Spokesperson
for the organization’s 2002 ad campaign was Dan Stein of FAIR.
Local
American Civil Responsibilities Union
Small California-based group.Promotes morality-based (“Traditional Judeo-Christian”) reform to
rectify the alleged cultural decay of the United States partially spurred
by the “invasion” of undocumented immigrants.Wants
to close the border and deport all illegal immigrants.Supported
California Proposition 187.Founder,
Howard Gerber, testified in Anaheim, California in favor of granting
power to local law enforcement to arrest suspected undocumented immigrants.
American Patrol
See Voices of Citizens Together.
Arizonans for Immigration Reform
PO Box 32552, Tuscon AZ 85751-2552
A member of the National Grassroots Alliance.Headed
by retiree Wes Bramhall.
Border Solutions Task Force
Ben Seeley is executive director.Group
has advocated inland immigration checkpoints as part of a more comprehensive
plan to end undocumented immigration from Mexico.Has
coordinated protests with CCIR and VCT. The group incorporated in 1994
and has a core group of about 20 to 30 members.
California Coalition for Immigration Reform (CCIR)
Box 2744-117, Huntington Beach, California 92649,
714/665-2500, http://ccir.net/Founded and directed by Barbara Coe (see below).Works
closely with Glen Spencer of Voices of Citizens Together, and has supported
other local anti-immigrant groups such as Sachem Quality of Life and
Alabama Christians for Immigration Reform.CCIR
co-authored and heavily campaigned for Proposition 187 in California.
Claims U.S. society is being polluted by different cultures and ethnicities
and recommends immediate deportation of undocumented immigrants.Warns
of an impending Mexican “Reconquista” and urges Congress to follow through
with its “constitutional obligations” to deal with the “ILLEGAL ALIEN
INVASION” of the United States. Supports ranchers’ “right” to detain
undocumented immigrants that cross their property and argues that local
police should have the right to arrest undocumented immigrants.Publishes 9*1*1.
Concerned Citizens of Cochise County
Group of residents and ranchers in the Douglas,
Arizona area concerned with undocumented immigration from Mexico.Headed
by rancher Larry Vance.Members
include Roger and Don Barnett (see below) and Andreas Mueller, who was
sued by an immigrant for assault.
Georgia Coalition for Immigration Reform
gacoalition@hotmail.com
Claims to be racially and ethnically diverse organization
that opposes racist and hateful views.Warn
of the Mexican “Reconquista.”From
their website: “Our coalition seeks reductions in immigration from ALL
other countries, but we focus particularly on the massive numbers from
certain Third World countries for reasons that become clear as one observes
and studies the consequences of allowing ourselves to become a dumping
ground for corruptly governed nations that use us as a safety valve for
their desperate millions while advancing hostile and neo-Marxist agendas
against us.” A member of the Southeast Alliance for Sensible Immigration
Policy and the Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America.Website
written by Donna Locke.
The Independence Institute
14142 Denver West Pkwy, Suite 185, Golden, CO 80401,
303/279-6536, http://i2i.orgColorado-based think tank that seeks alternatives
to government programs through libertarian policy initiatives.Houses
the Immigration Public Policy Center which conducts and publishes research
and sponsors forums on the issue of immigration.Focuses
on the purported social and economic costs of immigration to Coloradans.
Massachusetts Diversity Coalition
for Immigration Reform
Ranch Rescue
900 North Walnut Creek, Suite 100-213, Mansfield,
TX 76063, 817/355-4782
Vigilante organization dedicated to protecting
private property from the “invasion” of undocumented Mexican immigrants.
Organizes armed volunteer security forces to “protect” ranches along
the southern borders of Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas from “criminal
trespassers.”Has sent volunteers
to Roger Barnett’s (see below) Cross Rail ranch.Supports
heavier enforcement on the border.Headed
by Jack Foote.
Sachem Quality of Life Organization
Long Island-based organization.Calls for the deportation of day laborers—many of whom are undocumented
immigrants—working in Farmingville, Long Island area. Helped defeat a
bill that would have provided county funds to maintain a day laborers’ hiring
hall.Urges local law enforcement
to arrest those suspected of being undocumented immigrants. Has received
assistance from Federation for American Immigration Reform and Voices
of Citizens Together in local organizing efforts
TRI-State Immigration Moratorium, Inc.
PO Box 1812, Cathedral Station, New York, NY 10025,
212/439-8746
Has membership in New York, Connecticut and New
Jersey.Calls for greater attention
to the issue of legal immigration, seeking a five-year moratorium on
immigration and a return to pre-1965 immigration levels.Argues
that the numbers are too high, bringing wages down and causing population
growth.Proclaims to be defending
the interests of working people, African Americans and environmentalists.
Voices of Citizens Together (VCT)
Also known as American Patrol.Founded and led by Glenn Spencer, a major backer of California Proposition
187.One of the most vocal and
hard-lined local anti-immigrant groups in the country. Holds annual anti-immigrant
4th of July rallies, often attended by Lenora Fulani. Has
large and frequently-updated website.Says
dwindling enforcement on border will lead to Mexican takeover of Aztlán – now
the American Southwest.An email
dated Feb. 5, 2001 to the group’s list stated, “Powell says we no longer
have a border line with Mexico. That is an invitation for Mexicans to
flood into the United States. GET A GUN. Bush has sold us out. There
is no question.”
Pro-Official English Groups
National
Center for Equal Opportunity/ Equal Opportunity Foundation (CEO/EOF)
815 15th Street NW, Suite 928, Washington, DC 20005,
202/639-0803, www.ceousa.orgDescribes itself as devoted to colorblind equal
access to opportunity and to racial harmony.Argues
that immigration is not a problem, but that we need to promote assimilation
by establishing English as the national language and opposing both bilingual
education and affirmative action. Advocates for immigration admission
based on skill qualifications, not family reunification. Headed by Linda
Chavez (see below).
English First
Founded in 1986 to advocate for official
English and eliminate multilingual programs. Headed the Coalition Against
Puerto Rico Statehood.Considered
politically to the right of U.S. English, which has denounced English
First as “an insignificant knock-off organization.”Criticizes
Bush for Spanish language speeches, which, it claims, is slowing the
assimilation process and dividing voters into “tribes.”Founded
by Larry Pratt (see below).
English for the Children
Created by One Nation/One California to pass Proposition
227, California’s antibilingual education initiative. Opposes federal
funding for bilingual education program. Chaired by multimillionaire
Ron Unz (see below), who in 2000 bankrolled the successful antibilingual
education initiative in Arizona and has since shifted his efforts to
New York, Colorado and Massachusetts.
Institute for Research in English Acquisition and Development (READ)
815 15th Street NW, Suite 930, Washington, DC 20005,
202/639-0803, www.ceousa.org/Founded in 1989 and now a project of the Equal
Opportunity Foundation.Conducts
research and provides assistance to schools about educational programs
for limited-English students, consistently favoring English immersion
over bilingual education. Publishes READ Perspectives.Directed
by Linda Chavez (see below).
ProEnglish
Formerly known as English Language Advocates.Founded
in 1994 to legally defend an English-as-the-official-language amendment
to the Arizona constitution.Works
in courts and legislature to establish English language constitutional
amendments at state and federal levels.Opposes
bilingual education and government translation services.Shares
offices with Evangelicals for Immigration Reform and NumbersUSA. John
Tanton (see below) is founder and a board member.
U.S. English
1747 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 1100, Washington,
DC 20006, 202/833-0100, www.us-english.orgConsists of two organizations, one focusing on
legislative work at the state and federal levels, the other a much smaller
nonprofit education and resource center.Advocates
for official English, opposes statehood for Puerto Rico, bilingual programs,
and legalization.Has a budget
of more than $7 million. Founded in 1983 by John Tanton (see below) and
the late Sen. S.I. Hayakawa (R-CA).
Population Control & Environmental Groups
National
Carrying Capacity Network (CCN)
Blames high levels of immigration for a range
of environmental problems, including sprawl and the energy crisis. Claims
overpopulation decreases U.S. carrying capacity, the number of people
the country’s resources can sustain, and calls for a five year moratorium
on immigration and tougher employer sanctions. Ultimately seeks to decrease
current immigration quota of 1 million per year to 100,000.
Negative Population Growth, Inc. (NPG)
1717 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Suite 101, Washington,
DC 20036, 202/667-8950, www.npg.orgPopulation control group that promotes small families
and decreased immigration to ensure ecological preservation and sustainability.Blames
immigrants for U.S. mass consumption of natural resources.Has
an extensive print, television, and radio advertising campaign endorsing
population control and immigration restriction.Publishes
the quarterly Population and Resource Outlook.Executive
Director is Sharon McCloe Stein (see below).
NumbersUSA
A self-described “pro-immigrant and pro-immigration
but anti-overimmigration” organization.Says “overimmigration” will
lead to overcrowded schools, deteriorating quality of life, and urban
sprawl.Opposes high-tech visas.Claims
union support for undocumented immigrants hurts U.S. workers but monetarily
benefits union.Distributes “report
cards” on all congress members.Shares
office with ProEnglish and Evangelicals for Immigration Reform.Roy
Beck (see below) is founder and president.
POP.STOP
Advocates for reduced immigration which it claims
is the single largest cause of overpopulation in the United States.As
a member of the Coalition for the Future American Worker participated
in a large television and newspaper ad campaign opposing to high-tech
visas.
Population-Environment Balance
2000 P St NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20036, 202/955-5700, www.balance.orgOpposes any immigration beyond replacement level
and seeks a 100,000 immigrants per year cap for the next five years.
Connects immigration to urban sprawl, electricity blackouts, and water
shortages. A founding sponsor of the Alliance for Stabilizing America’s
Population! (ASAP!). Directed by Virginia Abernathy a demographer at
Vanderbilt University and a frequent speaker at Counsel of Conservative
Citizens conferences.
ProjectUSA
Population control organization that calls for
immediate moratorium on immigration to prevent congestion, pollution,
and a balkanized society.Blames
unassimilated immigrants for destroying the “monocultural” United States.Founded
by Craig Nelson (see below). Supports a five year guest worker program
as opposed to legalization for current undocumented immigrants.
Sierrans for U.S. Population Stabilization
PO Box 60736, Palo Alto, CA 94306-0736, (800) 352-4843, www.susps.orgFormed by members of the Sierra Club who advocated
that the Club promote immigration restriction as part of a population
control campaign, and more recently as part of an anti-sprawl campaign.
Focuses only on legal immigration and not on unauthorized immigration.
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
1400 Sixteenth Street NW, Suite 320, Washington,
DC 20036, 202/332-2200, www.zpg.orgA liberal organization that advocates population
control, especially in the United States, through education, advocacy
and service efforts that lower birth rates.Although
it argues that immigration is best decreased by addressing factors that
compel people to leave their home countries, also calls on the government
to set immigration levels that are consistent with slowing U.S. population
growth and to increase the INS’ ability to prevent violation of immigration
laws. Founded by John Tanton (See below).
Local
Bay Area Coalition for Immigration Reform
PO Box 2457, San Francisco, CA 94126, 415/241-8810, and
Immigration Reform Network of Silicon Valley
These two San Francisco-area groups share a website
and put out a joint newsletter, Limits to Growth. They argue that
a stable population and restrictions on immigration are necessary to
solve various social, environmental, and economic problems in the United
States. They state that through immigration the United States is importing
misogyny and antisemitism, especially from the Middle East, and that
the U.S. Southwest is in danger of becoming a separate Hispanic nation.Share
editor, Barbara Walker, with ProjectUSA.
Californians For Population Stablization (CAPS)
1129 State Street, Suite 3-D, Santa Barbara, CA
93101, 805/564-6626, www.cap-s.orgStarted in 1986 after the California contingent
of Zero Population Growth broke from the national group.Seeks to decrease fertility and immigration rates by limiting California
immigration, increasing border control, and the eliminating “automatic
citizenship.”Advocates population
control for environmental reasons.Advisory
board includes Anne Ehrlich, co-author with husband Paul Ehrlich, of
1968 landmark bestseller The Population Bomb.Publishes CAPSnews and
other activist resources.
Floridians for a Sustainable Population
Charges that the booming Florida population is
responsible for destruction of the environment.Seeks
to decrease domestic and foreign migration to Florida in part through
an immigration cap and photo-ID social security cards, and through increased
aid for international population control and family planning.Claims
U.S. immigration policy is an infringement on the rights of Americans
to live in comfortable, sustainable environments.
Midwest Coalition to Reform Immigration
Calls for 300,000 cap on immigration, arguing
that high immigration will create a labor crisis, additional public expenses,
and restrict local political voice in policy decisions. Also calls for
harsher employment sanctions and deportation, denial of citizenship to
children of undocumented immigrants, and greater state participation
in immigration policy.Publishes MCRI
Immigration News.A subsidiary
of NumbersUSA.Dave Gorak is director.
White Nationalist Groups
National
American Nationalist Union
Promotes independent and third party candidates
who support nationalist agendas to re-establish governments for the “great
Middle American core.” Demands an end to American involvement in NAFTA
and the construction of a security fence along the border of Mexico.Urges
a ten year moratorium on immigration. Publishes monthly Nationalist
Times.
CitizensLobby.com
Dedicated to “the preservation of American sovereignty,
culture, and values” and to putting U.S. interests first.Website
includes links to the FBI and INS so that those who know of “illegal
aliens” or “terrorists” in their community can submit tips. Scott Lauf,
the Executive Director, worked for Senator Jesse Helms in 1992 and was
a national staffer for Patrick Buchanan's 1996 presidential campaign.
Council of Conservative Citizens (CoCC)
PO Box 221683, St. Louis, MO 63122-9957, 314/291-8474, www.cofcc.orgPaleoconservative organization with close connections
to Jesse Helms, John Ashcroft, and Trent Lott that seeks to restore Confederate
values. Opposes the “Hispanic invasion,” big business and globalization.Calls
for re-education of the Right on economic issues. Has campaigned
to restore the Confederate flag and seeks to end racist attacks on Whites.Heir
to the White Citizens Council of the 1960s.Publishes The
Citizen Informer.
European-American Rights Organization
Formerly known as National Organization for European
American Rights (NOFEAR). Founded in 2000 by former Klan leader, David
Duke (see below).Modeled on the
structures of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored
People and the Anti-Defamation League, with multiple chapters and a legal
branch. Predicts the genocide of European Americans if immigration rates
are not decreased.Accuses the
government of discriminating against European Americans to appease the
growing minority population.Opposes
welfare, hate crime laws, affirmative action, “forced busing,” and Third
World immigration that “will destroy the character and heritage of America.”
Middle America News (MANews)
A monthly newspaper with a web presence.Advocates
for a strict reading of the Constitution.Frames
immigration as main cause of exploding U.S. population, overcrowded schools,
devaluation of the economy, and rising unemployment.Claims
immigration, bilingual education, and multiculturalism are a conspiracy
of the elite who want to compromise the liberties of other Americans.Urges
readers to reclaim, in Boston Tea Party fashion, the liberties originally
established in the Constitution.Frequent
contributors include Samuel Francis, Don Feder, and Charley Reese.
National Association for the Advancement of White People
Claims to be working to protect the “endangered” civil
rights, values and heritage of the White majority in the United States.States
that unauthorized immigration is turning the United States into a Third
World nation.Its website asks, “Aren't you sick of reverse discrimination, busing,
minority welfare rip offs, massive immigration, gun control, anti-white
movies & TV shows? Do you want to see America become like Mexico
or South Africa, or Uganda?”
New Century Foundation
Dept. A, PO Box 527, Oakton, VA 22124, 703/716-0900, www.amren.comFounded by Jared Taylor, cites preservation of
religious and racial homogeneity as main argument against immigration.
Taylor says, that “the strength of diversity is one of a whole series
of monstrous absurdities on which liberalism depends.” Other “absurdities” he
names are “the equality of the races, the equivalence of the sexes, the
unimportance of heredity, the normalcy of homosexuality, and the insignificance
of physical and mental handicap.”Publishes
American Renaissance.
Pioneer Fund
Originally created to fund research on eugenics
and innate differences between genders and races. Has provided millions
in grants to academic “race scientists” at public and prestigious private
universities.Has donated more
than $190,000 toAmerican Immigration
Control Foundation.Provided $1.2
million to FAIR between 1985 and 1994, including grants to promote Proposition
187. Heavily funded many of the researchers cited in The Bell Curve.
General: Websites Only
Affirmative Action for Immigrants?
Claims immigrants are reaping the benefits of
affirmative action programs at the expense of African Americans.Calls on the government to include new legislative wording that would
reserve affirmative action for African Americans only.Research
sponsored by The Social Contract Press and the website was created by
editor James Robb, who has written a booklet on the same topic for American
Immigration Control Foundation.
Americans for Better Immigration
Immigration restriction website that monitors
the voting records of committee chairs and other federal politicians
since 1989.It also reports on
the current administration’s immigration positions, giving Secretary
of Energy Spencer Abraham an “F,” and Attorney General Ashcroft a “D.” A
member of the Coalition for the Future American Worker.
Iconservative
The self-declared "New home for the Right."Offers
harsh anti-immigrant opinions, denounces Bush for being soft on immigration,
and features articles from a variety of conservative sources.Houses
extensive site dedicated to the presidential aspirations of Pat Buchanan,
whom it dubs “a real conservative.”
Sierra Club Parody
Parody site of the official Sierra Club.Attacks
official organization for failing toaddress
immigration as what it claims to be the largest environmental problem.Alleges “high-immigration extremists” within Sierra Club ordered
the neutral policy.Supports immigration
cap and withholding of citizenship from children of undocumented immigrants.
VDARE
A coalition website of individual members, including
Peter Brimelow (see below), a British immigrant and author of Alien
Nation. VDARE is short for Virginia Dare, the first English child
born in what is now the United States.Warns
that Mexican President Fox is trying to open the U.S.-Mexico border and
take over the country.Samuel Francis
(see below) is a frequent contributer.
General: Leaders/Ideologues
Roger and Don Barnett
Armed with pistols and assault rifles, claim to
have held 1000 undocumented immigrants who have trespassed on their Cross
Rail Ranch until U.S. Border Patrol agents have arrived.
Roy Beck
Supports population control and immigration restriction
policies.Founder of Numbers USA,
Washington editor for The Social Contract Press, author of The
Case Against Immigration, director of the Coalition for the Future
American Worker, and member of the Midwest Coalition for Immigration
Reform Advisory Council.
George J. Borjas
From a Cuban family who immigrated in 1962, Borjas
is an Economist at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard
University. He says immigrants today are less skilled, less educated
and more likely to go on welfare than natives, and are a drain on the
national economy—mostly because of the 1965 laws that dropped race-based
immigrant quotas and led to an increase in poor immigrants. He favors
curtailingimmigration and changing
policies to favor skilled immigrants.Author
of Heavan’s Door: Immigration Policy and the American Economy.
Peter Brimelow
Author of Alien Nation.Focuses
attention on national unity and White preservation.Editor
of VDARE.Senior editor for Forbes
Magazine and The National Review.
Patrick Buchanan
Xenophobic economic
nationalist and populist. Left the Republican Party during the 2000 presidential
election to run on the Reform Party ticket with Ezola Foster, anti-immigrant
activist and an African-American former member of the John Birch Society.In
2001, under Buchanan’s leadership, the Reform Party voted to support
a ten-year ban on immigration.Author
of Death of the West: How Mass Immigration, Depopulation & A Dying
Faith Are Killing Our Culture and Country.
Linda Chavez
Former Reagan appointee and George W. Bush’s initial
pick for Secretary of Labor.Proponent
of assimilation and English as the official U.S. language.Believes
bilingual education should be abandoned in favor of English immersion.
Author of Out of the Barrio, president of the Center for Equal
Opportunity and the READ Institute, and former head of U.S. English.
Syndicated columnist and political analyst for Fox News.
Barbara Coe
Director of California Coalition for Immigration
Reform.Has appeared at the conferences
of the Council of Conservative Citizens and written for its newsletter.In
1996 told the Washington Times, “Are we shocked by the demands
that Latinos be given instant citizenship privileges?These
are the same legal and illegal immigrants who bleed our welfare and medical
care programs dry for benefits that citizens are denied, destroy our
educational system, and laugh at our judicial system while they grab
their welfare checks with one hand, deal drugs with the other and their
gangs savagely murder our citizens.”
Samuel Francis
Isolationist concerned about promoting White culture
as a cornerstone of U.S. national sovereignty. Editor and publisher of Sam
Francis Weekly.Also, was syndicated
columnist and editorial contributor for the Washington Times,
until he was fired for writing a racially offensive column.Once
chaired the American Immigration Control Foundation.Currently
is a frequent contributor to the Conservative Chronicles andeditor
of Citizens Informer, a publication of the Council of Conservative
Citizens.
Craig Nelson
Founded ProjectUSA in 1991and directs the National
Grassroots Alliance.Has erected
billboards proclaiming, "Over 80 percent of Americans support very little
or no immigration" and "Immigration is doubling U.S. population in your
lifetime." Has admitted to falsifying statistics that appeared on his “billboard
democracy” campaign against the alleged immigrant-spawned population
boom and to having employed undocumented immigrants in his Manhattan
restaurant.
Larry Pratt
Has founded several groups that are to the right
of their right-wing counterparts:English
First (as opposed to U.S. English), Gun Owners of America (as opposed
to the National Rifle Association), U.S. Border Control (as opposed to
FAIR) and the antichoice Committee to Protect the Family.Resigned
as co-chair of Pat Buchanan’s national campaign in 1996 after allegations
linked him to militias and White supremacist organizations.A
ruling elder in the Presbyterian Church in the United States.
Dan Stein
President of Federation for American Immigration
Reform since 1988.Married to Sharon
McCloe Stein of NPG.On The
Social Contract Editorial Advisory Board.Operates
the website, The Stein Report, www.steinreport.com.A
former congressional staffer. According to the ADL, Stein once said: “Certainly
we would encourage people in other countries to have small families.Otherwise
they’ll all be coming here, because there’s no room in the Vatican…Many
[immigrants] hate America, hate everything the United States stands for.Talk
to some of these Central Americans.”
Sharon McCloe Stein
Executive Director of Negative Population Growth.Married
to Dan Stein of FAIR.
John Tanton
Served as founder and director of Zero Population
Growth (ZPG) from 1971-75 and the first president of the Northern Michigan
Planned Parenthood.From 1975-77
was chairman of the Sierra Club National Population Committee.When Tanton failed to convince ZPG board to deal with immigration
as a population control issue, he founded Federation for American Immigration
Reform (FAIR) (he is now on the Board of Directors) and later joined
with Sen. S.I. Hayakawa (R-CA) to found U.S. English.Resigned
as chair of U.S. English and Linda Chavez resigned as president when
a now-infamous Tanton-authored memo was leaked.The memo posited that California could become a state with educated,
English-speaking, Protestant Whites being outnumbered by uneducated,
poor, Spanish-speaking and Catholic Hispanics: “Perhaps this is the first
instance in which those with their pants up are going to be caught by
those with their pants down!”He
has since founded ProEnglish and publishes The Social Contract.
Ron Unz
Silicon Valley entrepreneur and physicist who
bankrolled the antibilingual education campaigns in California and Arizona.Created
English for the Children to further his English immersion campaign.Ran
for governor of California in 1994 against Pete Wilson on a pro-immigrant
platform and opposed Proposition 187.Is
on the board of Center for Equal Opportunity.
John Vinson
Has headed American Immigration Control Foundation
since 1990.Has worked closely
with White supremacist Council of Conservative Citizens, as a speaker
at its conferences and a columnist, and more recently a contributing
writer for its publication. |
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