Mark Krikorian
Mark Krikorian has been the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a key organization in the anti-immigration network created by racist John Tanton, since 1995.[1] When he was…
Resources
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TantonWatch: Battling Hate in the Immigration Debate
The contemporary anti-immigration movement in the United States is largely the product of decades of organizing, fundraising, and ideological work by one man — John Tanton, a Michigan ophthalmologist who…
TantonWatch: An index of resources on the Tanton nativist network
The following is a compilation of resources describing the network of anti-immigration groups and individuals founded, funded, or otherwise nurtured by the late John Tanton, the racist architect of the…
Eugenics and the Tanton Anti-Immigration Network
There was a time, about a century ago, when eugenics — the study and practice of selective human breeding in order to “improve” the human race — was viewed as a serious…
The Camp of the Saints: A Key Anti-Immigrant Text
The Camp of the Saints is a dystopian French novel depicting the invasion of France by a flotilla of bestial, feces-eating immigrants from India. It was written in 1973 by…
NumbersUSA
NumbersUSA, based in Washington, D.C., and Arlington, Va., is an immigration restrictionist organization that was founded in 1996 and has been led from the start by former journalist Roy Beck.…
Center for Immigration Studies
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that claims to be an “independent, non-partisan, non-profit, research organization,” was started in 1985 and says that it has…
John Tanton
John Tanton, who died in 2019, was the racist architect of the contemporary American anti-immigration movement. Based in Petoskey, Mich., Tanton was an ophthalmologist who was an early advocate of…
Stephen Miller
Even in an administration that was notorious for its harsh immigration policies, Stephen Miller, senior advisor for policy during Donald Trump’s four years in office, was known as a hardliner’s…
Faith and the Tanton Anti-Immigration Network
American nativists tend to be part of the hard political right. Many of them are open about their antipathy toward people of color, frequently attacking foreigners’ personal traits and cultures.…