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Hassan Ahmad @HMAesq
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John Tanton, the founder of the nation's largest anti-immigrant organizations currently informing immigration policy, believed Asian men have small penises.

(this is why I'm suing to unseal the #TantonPapers)

Read his own words:
To recap: This is a man who was obsessed with ideas about racial purity and eugenics. His ideas informed his views on immigration. Those organizations are currently in the White House's ear.

This is a problem.

splinternews.com/the-eugenicist…
So who was he writing to to find out about the use of male aphrodisiacs?
The letter is addressed to a shadowy figure named Harry Weyher, Jr.

He was a lawyer (and fellow @UNC alum..) but more notably, served as President of the Pioneer Fund from 1958 until his death in 2002.
A primer on the Pioneer Fund:

* Founded in 1937 "to advance the scientific study of heredity and human differences"
* Gave $1.3M to Tanton's groups 1985 - 1994.
* Promoted eugenics and ideas of racial IQ disparity
* Founding papers modeled on Nazi Lebensborn breeding program
In the sealed #TantonPapers I am suing to unseal are 9 folders @UMich has labeled "Pioneer Fund."

Screenshot from U-M Bentley Historical Library website:
FAIR was founded in 1979.
Center for Immigration Studies in 1984 (@USCIS director Francis Cissna officially addressed this group at the @PressClubDC on 8.15.18)

Tanton remained on the FAIR board until 2011.

In 1995, he was still communicating with eugenicists.
Yet Tanton-network players like @MarkSKrikorian (ED of @CIS_org) write op-eds like this, complaining that they are unfairly labeled as a "hate group."

Note the diversionary tactics in this well-polished piece:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-l…
If, as Krikorian boasts, the Tanton-founded groups have "testified before Congress >100 times," testified before other agencies, done contract work for others, and is otherwise so influential on immigration -

Shouldn't we see the sealed #TantonPapers?

#SunlightDisinfects
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