Politico publishes controversial anti-immigrant leader, again
February 7, 2011 by Jill Garvey
Filed under: American Identity, Immigration, Politics
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Politico recently ran an op-ed by controversial figure Roy Beck, CEO of NumbersUSA. This is the same Roy Beck whose career and organization were shaped by white nationalist John Tanton. Tanton is the guy who spent the better part of the last 30 years building the infrastructure for today’s powerful anti-immigrant movement. According to Henry Fernandez at The Center for American Progress:

By his own admission, Tanton’s creations include the largest and best known of the national anti-immigrant organizations: NumbersUSA and FAIR, which stands for the Federation for American Immigration Reform.

The Tanton-owned Social Contract Press publishes the views of white nationalists such as John Vinson, including a gem about how God prefers racial separation. Tanton also publishes Camp of the Saints, a racist screed that uses fiction to warn white Europeans about an impending invasion of immigrants from India who will overrun the government, kidnap white women and make them into prostitutes.

But one doesn’t have to know much about Tanton to get a sense of NumbersUSA’s agenda; Beck has enough shady activities of his own.

They include posting a blog article on NumbersUSA’s website attacking immigration reform advocates, stating that they “are killingâ€