(The Center Square) – An influx of immigrants entering the country illegally costs American taxpayers more than $150 billion, according to a recent estimate.
Major newspapers and wire services continue to cite white nationalist-linked nativist organizations two of which have been declared hate groups by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) as authorities on immigration, often without mentioning their extremist beliefs or their outsize influence on the Trump administration.
The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA are all anti-immigrant groups with deep ties to the late white nationalist and eugenicistJohn Tanton, who wanted to limit immigration in order to maintain the United States as a white-majority country. Tanton personally founded FAIR and CIS, which have since been classified as hate groups by the SPLC. Although NumbersUSA was not directly founded by Tanton, it originally operated as a part of his foundation, U.S. Inc., and the group s president and CEO, Roy Beck, was dubbed by Tanton his “heir apparent.” All three of these groups and their leade