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Anti-immigrant extremists are furious over a decision by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) to exclude Californians for Population Stabilization (CAPS), a nativist organization masquerading as an environmental group, from its annual meeting.

In a press release this week, CAPS board member Stuart Hurlbert, an emeritus professor of biology of San Diego State University, raged that AAAS was 鈥渙penly censor[ing] speech and access to information鈥� and asked why the group 鈥渇ears any discussion of stabilizing U.S. population by lowering immigration.鈥�

AAAS 鈥渇ears鈥� nothing of the sort. Spokeswoman Ginger Pinholster told Hatewatch that the group welcomes any 鈥渟cience-focused鈥� entity to apply for exhibit space at its conference. AAAS declined CAPS鈥� application because 鈥渦pon investigation, we concluded they were more focused on political issues like immigration than on evidence-based scientific issues,鈥� Pinholster said.

Hurlbert鈥檚 press release, which says that 100 U.S. and Canadian scientists and 鈥渙ther scholars鈥� are protesting the AAAS event, was issued not by CAPS but by , a race-baiting hate group with a special animus toward immigrants. Like CAPS, TSCP gets its cash from U.S. Inc., the funding conduit for an entire network of anti-immigrant organizations, including hate groups like the and think tanks like the , founded and/or funded by John Tanton, architect of the modern anti-immigration movement.

Yesterday鈥檚 press release wasn鈥檛 the only vent for CAPS鈥� spleen. Hurlbert鈥檚 tale of woe also made the cover of the winter edition of TSCP鈥檚 quarterly journal, The Social Contract, which once dedicated an entire issue to arguing that no Muslim immigrants should be allowed into the U.S. and has claimed that multiculturalists are trying to replace 鈥渟uccessful Euro-American culture鈥� with 鈥渄ysfunctional Third World cultures.鈥� In a screed co-authored with representatives of the Population Institute of Canada (PIC) 鈥� an anti-immigrant group that lost its space at the conference after AAAS learned it planned to have CAPS co-staff its booth 鈥� Hurlbert detailed the 鈥渟aga,鈥� bemoaning the presence within the scientific community of 鈥渃ensors and axers of truth.鈥�

But PIC wasn鈥檛 鈥渃ensored.鈥� It violated AAAS rules about who can staff presentations at its conferences. 鈥淭here is no bait-and-switch; one organization cannot be a front for another,鈥� Pinholster told Hatewatch.

What鈥檚 more, she said, AAAS does 鈥渟peak out鈥� 鈥� but only on issues 鈥渁t the intersection of science and society.鈥� Questions about the consequences of population growth 鈥� a subject to which the AAAS last year devoted an entire issue of its magazine 鈥� are 鈥渘ot something we shy away from,鈥� Pinholster said. But 鈥渨e do make a distinction between evidence-based scientific discourse and political agendas.鈥�

Hurlbert doesn鈥檛. In addition to serving on the board of CAPS, he coordinates Americans United to Halt Tourism in Mexico. Last year, he helped run the Support Arizona/Boycott San Diego Coalition, which so favored Arizona鈥檚 draconian anti-immigrant law that it threatened to boycott San Diego, its own city, because of a city council resolution condemning the Arizona law. (Calls for a boycott were rescinded when the coalition realized that unlike some California cities, San Diego wasn鈥檛 actually boycotting Arizona.) Standing with Hurlbert in both coalitions are the , a hot-tempered nativist extremist group headed by Jeff Schwilk, and Barbara Coe鈥檚 vicious .

Last month, Hurlbert and the president of the Population Institute of Canada launched a miniature crusade against the authors of , a book condemning attempts to link immigration to environmental concerns.

鈥淪upport for immigration controls strengthens the most regressive forces in our societies and weakens our ability to deal with the real causes of environmental problems,鈥� the book warns. 鈥淚mmigrants are not pollution. Anti-immigration policies divide the environmental movement along race, class, and gender lines, at a time when the broadest possible unity is essential.鈥�