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Hassan Ahmad @HMAesq
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Now this is interesting white nationalist rhetoric from our friends at @NumbersUSA.

They are so afraid of brown people they're brazenly advocating for a repeal of the 14th Amendment.

Is this a new position because they're emboldened? Hardly.
This group, NumbersUSA, was founded as the "grassroots" component of anti-immigrant mastermind John Tanton. It's president, @RoyBeck_NUSA has been communicating with the white nationalist sympathizer since at least 1990:
Tanton was obsessed with figuring out ways to preserve a white majority in the US. He saw immigration as an existential threat to the national identity of the US.

And he didn't like the 14th Amendment.

See this letter he wrote to a law professor in 1975:
Note: he thought "children of illegal aliens" would lead to a "highly undesirable situation" in the future.

Classic white nationalist belief, fear of a silent brown invasion.

Note also: law professor tells him he needs to #BuildTheWall - and Puerto Rico should be independent.
14A is about equal protection, due process, and birthright citizenship. It's worked well for 150 years.

It's bad enough @USCIS has a denaturalization task force to revoke citizenship for foreign born.

Groups like NumbersUSA feed this rhetoric into national discourse.
They're grassroots. They like to shock. Hear that creaking sound? It's the Overton window, shifting even further to the right.

If a naturalized citizen becomes second class, why not do the same to born citizens of the undocumented?

That's white nationalism.
Now, just like the @NRA, NumbersUSA grades all Congresspeople on immigration reduction.

Given where NUSA comes from, I'd think an F rating would be a badge of honor.

numbersusa.com/content/my/too…
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