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Thu Mar 31, 2016, 11:51 AM Mar 2016

SPLC - National Border Patrol Council (Trump endorsers) ties to anti-immigrant & White Nationalists

A lot in that subject line, sorry. Direct ties to John Tanton too. I knew this group stinked to high heaven.


An important new report by the Chicago-based civil rights organization Center for New Community (CNC), released yesterday, documents collusion between the leadership of U.S. Border Patrol Unions and the organized anti-immigrant movement in the United States.

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2015/07/01/cnc-report-details-collusion-between-anti-immigrant-groups-and-immigration-agents



The report reveals that the anti-immigrant movement is actively engaged in developing sources within these agencies and unions who are willing to leak data directly to them, and cultivating spokespersons from within these unions who are willing to echo their messaging and to advocate for their policy goals.

One year ago today, anti-immigrant protesters in the town of Murrieta, Calif., blocked busses carrying some of the thousands of women and children who were fleeing violence in Central America. As the report notes, the activists would not have known about the busses coming to Murrieta if it were not for Border Patrol agents leaking the information to anti-immigrant leaders.

The report also notes that a close working relationship with Border Patrol and other government agencies is part of the broader anti-immigrant strategy, one developed over three decades ago by white nationalist John Tanton, the founder of the modern nativist movement. Today, the anti-immigrant groups rely heavily on these agencies to provide them with information.

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