Thread by @HMAesq

Who is the anti-immigrant movement?

It's time to pull off their masks. My colleague @MarkPotok with @C4ARR put together profiles of key players in this network.

They're the reason we're in this mess.

1. Dan Stein

President of Tanton flagship @FAIRImmigration and faithful acolyte of John Tanton, racist architect of the movement.

Wants to bring back racial quotas into immigration.
Thinks Latinos and Muslims are a threat to American identity.

2. Mark Krikorian

ED of @CIS_org, the Tanton "think tank."

Virulent Islamophobe and white nationalist sympathizer.
Pushes racist agenda under academic guise.
Thinks immigrant children should be sent to Guantánamo.

More: radicalrightanalysis.com/2021/08/03/mar…

3. Roy Beck

Two-faced President of @NumbersUSA, the Tanton grasswork arm.
Fronts as a friend to black people whom he believes are hurt by immigration.
Says he is pro-immigrant.
Wrote a book called "The Case Against Immigration."

Once sent me a bag of gumballs in the mail.

4. Stephen Miller

Architect of the #MuslimBan, enemy to refugees, proponent of family separation. Mentored by @larryelder and David Horowitz. Relied on Tanton Network "data" to justify his Naziesque policies. Fan of @vdare white nationalist rag.

radicalrightanalysis.com/2021/08/03/ste…

5. John Tanton

Architect of it all. Hardcore eugenicist and white nationalist. Invented the camouflage worn by his peons, see above.

The most influential unknown man in America.
Died 2019; thought lives on.

Sealed #TantonPapers lawsuit to shed light.

radicalrightanalysis.com/2021/08/03/joh…

And there are more.
The organizations. The money. The bullhorn. The political pull.

Ask yourself: How stupid is the debate over Dreamers? Granting them citizenship is a no-brainer.

These organizations got us here. We waste time in inane debates, and never get reform.

They testify on the Hill. They're quoted by major media as a legitimate "oppositional" voice, their racist origins always shielded.

They cozy up with white nationalists, living and breathing off their hate.

And they're still making policy.

Let me say this publicly: Not a day goes by in my practice as an immigration lawyer that I don't run up against some policy crafted by these suited Klansmen.

Not a single day.

They're hard to write about because they play the long game, the slow burn, the 1000 paper cuts.

But we ignore them at our own peril. Immigration reform will continue to fail as long as they're poisoning the well.

More by Mark: radicalrightanalysis.com/people/mark-po…