As President Trump鈥檚 immigration plan was formally announced last week and reiterated during his State of the Union speech last night, anti-immigrant groups, notably the 鈥淏ig Three鈥� Beltway groups,聽Federation for American Immigration Reform聽(FAIR), the聽Center for Immigration Studies聽(CIS) and聽NumbersUSA聽have decried, in unison, the plan as an 鈥渁mnesty,鈥� but the nativist measures in it are initiatives these groups have pushed for decades.
鈥婽丑别听聽is intended to shock: A young, red-haired girl is smiling at her phone while she walks down a suburban sidewalk, passing a swarthy man with a goatee wearing a hoodie who the narrator identifies as an 鈥渋llegal immigrant.鈥�
As the national debate over immigration continues to rage, white nationalist leaders have also been weighing in.
Officials from ProEnglish, a longtime anti-immigrant hate group founded by white nationalist John Tanton, recently visited the White House and met with a senior legislative aide to the President, according to a January 23 on the ProEnglish website.聽
After President Donald J. Trump declared Haiti and other black-majority countries a 鈥渟hithole鈥� during a meeting about immigration on Thursday, some of his white supremacist followers took it as a good sign.
In a crude moment seemingly borne in frustration over a bipartisan immigration deal, President Trump lashed out at the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries.
After being bounced from his career as Maricopa County Sheriff in Arizona, Joe Arpaio is now tossing his hat into the race for U.S. Senate.
In Southern California, once-prominent nativist聽Joseph Turner聽has returned to anti-immigrant activism, forming a new organization in 2017 that announced ballot initiatives in several local jurisdictions targeting undocumented children and so-called sanctuary cities.
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee and extremist who lost the December 12 special senate election in Alabama, has filed a 鈥渧oter fraud"聽complaint聽in the state of Alabama and named an antisemite and conspiracy theorist as two of his voting "experts."
Hate group leader David Grisham tells Alaska kids聽Santa isn鈥檛 real.
