Hate group leader: Our allies ‘are now very well placed’ in the Trump administration – Daily Kos

But just asfrightening are the additions of former staffers from two anti-immigrant hate groups to two federal immigration agencies (because of course): the Center for Immigration StudiesJon Feere to Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Federation for American Immigration Reforms Julie Kirchner toCustoms and Border Protection. Both CIS and FAIR, founded by white nationalist, eugenicist, and retired eye doctorJohn Tanton, have been designated hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center:

Papers from Tantons library showhe has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has corresponded with Holocaust deniers, former Klan lawyers and the leading white nationalist thinkers of the era.And according to Think Progress,Tanton is a strictnativistwho once wrote a paper titled The Case for Passive Eugenics. Charming.

Both CIS and FAIRdisown SPLCsfact-finding and claim they just want to reform the legal immigration system, but the truth is they want to stop brown people from coming to the U.S. And the ones that are already here, theywant out.Weve worked closely with lots of people, who are now very well placed in his administration, for a long time, FAIRs president, Dan Stein, admitted about the allies he and other anti-immigrant extremists now have in the White House. With an unshackled ICE sweeping up hardworking, undocumented immigrants with no criminal history and deep ties to this nation, thats been very clear so far.

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