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    • 30 Apr 06
    • 7:43 pm

    According to Leonard Zeskind, "The New Nativism" in The American Prospect 11.10.05 at http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=10485 **** It was Tanton who founded the anti-immigration movement’s most powerful institution, the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). A retired ophthalmologist once active on environmental issues, his interest in immigration was marked in the beginning by an explicitly racial argument. “To govern is to populate,” Tanton wrote in 1986. “Will the present majority peaceably hand over its political power to a group that is simply more fertile? … As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the …

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