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The Frederick County (Maryland) Council聽 4-3 to repeal its English-only ordinance passed in 2012. This positive step is a blow for the organized anti-immigrant movement and the hate group聽ProEnglish, a group that actively lobbied to block the county鈥檚 repeal.

For decades, ProEnglish and its predecessor English Language Advocates have pushed to implement English-only laws, including in Frederick County.

These laws would require the government operate in English and, ultimately, discriminate聽against those with聽limited proficiency in English. While ProEnglish argues that passing these laws is an inclusionary measure designed to promote assimilation, it鈥檚 own history of racism undercuts its claim.

ProEnglish was founded in 1994 by white nationalist John Tanton, the founder of the modern-day anti-immigrant movement, in the wake of his forced resignation聽from another English-only group, U.S. English. Tanton resigned from the group in 1988 when racially charged memos聽he authored surfaced. In one memo about an upcoming retreat, Tanton proposed several questions to facilitate discussions at the gathering:

• "In this society ... will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile?"
• 鈥淲ill Latin American migrants bring with them the tradition of the mordida (bribe), the lack of involvement in public affairs, etc.?鈥�
• 鈥淲ill Blacks be able to improve (or even maintain) their position in the face of the Latin onslaught?鈥�

Today, ProEnglish is one of the few remaining groups in聽Tanton鈥檚 network in which he remains actively involved. A number of the group鈥檚 board members and staff are also white nationalist.

K.C. McAlpin, a longtime anti-immigrant activist and Tanton鈥檚 right hand man in Michigan, sits on ProEnglish鈥檚 board. In 2010, an editorial in Tanton鈥檚 journal The Social Contract called for a ban on all Muslim immigration to the United States. McAlpin defended the editorial, claiming that banning Muslims would be akin to barring Communists or Nazis in the past.

According to McAlpin, 鈥淐ongress has used that power in the past to ban the immigration of Communist Party and National Socialist (Nazi) party members who were deemed to be threats to our national security. This case is no different.鈥�

ProEnglish鈥檚 current executive director is white nationalist Robert 鈥淏ob鈥� Vandervoort. A regular attendee at racist gatherings, Vandervoort is the former head of the white nationalist group Chicagoland Friends of American Renaissance, a satellite for American Renaissance, a group founded by Jared Taylor, one of the most well known white nationalists in America today.聽

In the above picture, Robert Vandervoort, left, rubs shoulders with white nationalist Pat Buchanan.聽