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Does anybody know how many more anti-immigration groups out there have ties to these racist organizations? Is thier agenda really based only on immigration? How can Americans believe anything they report?
http://splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=362
New SPLC Report: Three Leading Anti-Immigration Groups Share Extremist Roots (FAIR, CIS & NumbersUSA)
Three Washington, D.C., organizations most responsible for blocking comprehensive immigration reform in 2007 are part of a network of groups created by a man who has been at the heart of the white nationalist movement for decades, according to a report issued today by the Southern Poverty Law Center.
The Nativist Lobby: Three Faces of Intolerance describes how the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA were founded and funded by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who operates a racist publishing company and has written that to maintain American culture, ''a European-American majority'' is required.
''These groups have infiltrated the mainstream by presenting themselves as legitimate commentators, when, in reality, they were all conceived by a man who is convinced that non-white immigrants threaten America,'' said Mark Potok, director of the SPLC is Intelligence Project. ''They have never strayed far from their roots.''
FAIR, whose members have testified frequently before Congress, has hired as key officials men who also joined white supremacist groups. It has promoted racist conspiracy theories. And it has even accepted more than $1 million from the Pioneer Fund, a racist foundation devoted to proving a connection between race and intelligence, the report found.
Similarly, NumbersUSA, a group that has achieved dramatic policy successes, began its life as a Tanton foundation program, the report found. NumbersUSA Executive Director Roy Beck has even been described by Tanton as his ''heir apparent.'' He also edited The Immigration Invasion, a book by Tanton and a colleague that was so raw in its immigrant bashing that Canadian border authorities have banned it as hate literature.
OH DOCAR! you never quit do you? When a group defends immigrants for being victims of racial violence and discrimination, you are quick to call them ''Pro-illegals''. Maybe you should read what SPLC is about, and it is not a group that was formed regarding illlegal immigration.
The Southern Poverty Law Center was founded in 1971 as a small civil rights law firm. Today, SPLC is internationally known for its tolerance education programs, its legal victories against white supremacists and its tracking of hate groups.
OH SASORI! there you go again with your La Raza is a racist group claim again. Sorry! but when groups leaders are known to be members of KNOWN racist organizations, it is um! really clear what they are about.
Please provide us proof of La Raza being a racist group? Just because they help Hispanics further their education and fight for their rights because nobody else does, does not make them racists?? Hmmmm!
http://nclr.org/section/solely/
Critics also argue that NCLR’s programs only serve Hispanics. This is simply not true. NCLR and its programs are covered by civil rights laws administered by independent agencies at the federal, state, and local level. We helped enact some of these laws, and we take them very seriously.
For example, in 2006, as part of NCLR’s homeownership program, NCLR Affiliates served about 29,000 clients. Almost 20% were White and approximately 12% were Black. The program targets low-income neighborhoods that contain large Hispanic populations, where NCLR Affiliates are often among the few institutions to offer their services in both English and Spanish. For these reasons, and due to the demographics of the neighborhoods served and the type of services offered, NCLR Affiliates tend to attract a Hispanic clientele, although not exclusively.