The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“A Republican politician in Oregon pushing to repeal an immigrant-friendly law is the vice president of an anti-immigrant hate group, the group told The Daily Beast on Monday, despite his previous denial.
“Oregon House Rep. Mike Nearman is vice president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform, an anti-immigrant coalition with ties to eugenicist John Tanton, who has pushed white nationalist politics through a series of anti-immigrant organizations. . . . OFIR and Nearman are spearheading an effort to repeal [an] Oregon law that prevents state and local police from arresting people whose only crime is being in the country without proper documentation. . . .
“The post puts him second in command at what the Southern Poverty Law Center [has] . . . characterized as a hate group. On its website, OFIR calls for slashing immigration rates, claiming that current immigration patterns “dissuade assimilation of new immigrants into becoming Americans.” Its actual history is more explicitly racist.
“Founded in 2000, OFIR was among a wave of local anti-immigrant groups that formed with funding or inspiration from anti-immigrant figurehead John Tanton and his network of organizations. . . . .including [the] Federation for American Immigration Reform and its umbrella group U.S. Inc.
“Tanton’s writings . . . , reveal his white nationalist views.
““ ‘I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that,’ he wrote a friend in 1993.
“OFIR praises FAIR on its website. OFIR’s current president, Cynthia Kendoll, spoke at a 2014 conference hosted by The Social Contract Press, a Tanton-founded outlet that publishes white nationalist material. In a 2014 interview with Oregon’s Willamette Week., Kendoll argued that immigrants did not want to become citizens but were instead interested in ‘an organized assault on our culture’.”
Now OFIR has an Oregon elected official as its vice president. –GOP Lawmaker Is a Leader in a Hate Group That Calls Immigration ‘Assault on Our Culture,’ Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast, 9/11/18 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: This Daily Beast hit piece against Oregonians for Immigration Reform (OFIR) employs typical tactics of mass immigration propagandists. One is the use of the term “anti-immigrant” to describe OFIR. This suggests that the organization has an irrational prejudice against all immigrants. The actual position of OFIR is limiting immigration to a level that is beneficial to our country. To say that this is hateful is like saying that parents who limit the number of children they have are people who hate children. Nevertheless, the author of the article, Kelly Weill, proclaims that OFIR’s concerns about assimilation are “racist,” if not explicitly so.
To back up her claim, Weill cites the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a disreputable radical-left organization which regularly labels groups it hates as “hate groups.” The left-wing “mainstream” media dutifully repeat the SPLC’s charges as if it were a legitimate source of information. A review of its nefarious past clearly shows otherwise. In 2019, its leaders had to resign due to a scandal involving racial and sexual harassment within the organization. Ironically, this is the outfit that regularly accuses others of racism and sexism. A clear revelation of the SPLC’s political sympathies came when its chief of staff, Lecia Brooks, spoke to a group of armed Marxists who were carrying red banners emblazoned with the Communist hammer and sickle emblem. She used the pronoun “we” to refer to their common aims.
Weill maintains that OFIR is tainted by its loose links to John Tanton, whom she tables as a “white nationalist” and clearly someone beyond the pale of decency. Her evidence is Tanton’s speculation that America’s European-derived culture will recede if its white population declines. This is a view one may dispute, but it’s hard to see anything inherently hateful about it. To illustrate, if white, black and brown immigrants were flooding China, the Chinese might reasonably question the impact of this influx on their culture. Immigration without assimilation, as OFIR’s president so rightly notes, is an “assault on our culture.”
Weill seems to think it‘s outrageous that police would arrest people without proper documents, i.e., illegal aliens. Thus, one can conclude that she doesn’t believe in any restraint on foreign masses wishing to move here. In his book Importing Revolution, William Hawkins documents how radical leftists promote uncontrolled immigration as a means to destabilize American society and further their revolutionary agenda. These “Red supremacists” have many enablers in America’s media.
The Quote Below—More Misinformation from the Media
“A Republican politician in Oregon pushing to repeal an immigrant-friendly law is the vice president of an anti-immigrant hate group, the group told The Daily Beast on Monday, despite his previous denial.
“Oregon House Rep. Mike Nearman is vice president of Oregonians for Immigration Reform, an anti-immigrant coalition with ties to eugenicist John Tanton, who has pushed white nationalist politics through a series of anti-immigrant organizations. . . . OFIR and Nearman are spearheading an effort to repeal [an] Oregon law that prevents state and local police from arresting people whose only crime is being in the country without proper documentation. . . .
“The post puts him second in command at what the Southern Poverty Law Center [has] . . . characterized as a hate group. On its website, OFIR calls for slashing immigration rates, claiming that current immigration patterns “dissuade assimilation of new immigrants into becoming Americans.” Its actual history is more explicitly racist.
“Founded in 2000, OFIR was among a wave of local anti-immigrant groups that formed with funding or inspiration from anti-immigrant figurehead John Tanton and his network of organizations. . . . .including [the] Federation for American Immigration Reform and its umbrella group U.S. Inc.
“Tanton’s writings . . . , reveal his white nationalist views.
““ ‘I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that,’ he wrote a friend in 1993.
“OFIR praises FAIR on its website. OFIR’s current president, Cynthia Kendoll, spoke at a 2014 conference hosted by The Social Contract Press, a Tanton-founded outlet that publishes white nationalist material. In a 2014 interview with Oregon’s Willamette Week., Kendoll argued that immigrants did not want to become citizens but were instead interested in ‘an organized assault on our culture’.”
Now OFIR has an Oregon elected official as its vice president. –GOP Lawmaker Is a Leader in a Hate Group That Calls Immigration ‘Assault on Our Culture,’ Kelly Weill, The Daily Beast, 9/11/18 [Link]
Fact Check of Above Quote: This Daily Beast hit piece against Oregonians for Immigration Reform (OFIR) employs typical tactics of mass immigration propagandists. One is the use of the term “anti-immigrant” to describe OFIR. This suggests that the organization has an irrational prejudice against all immigrants. The actual position of OFIR is limiting immigration to a level that is beneficial to our country. To say that this is hateful is like saying that parents who limit the number of children they have are people who hate children. Nevertheless, the author of the article, Kelly Weill, proclaims that OFIR’s concerns about assimilation are “racist,” if not explicitly so.
To back up her claim, Weill cites the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a disreputable radical-left organization which regularly labels groups it hates as “hate groups.” The left-wing “mainstream” media dutifully repeat the SPLC’s charges as if it were a legitimate source of information. A review of its nefarious past clearly shows otherwise. In 2019, its leaders had to resign due to a scandal involving racial and sexual harassment within the organization. Ironically, this is the outfit that regularly accuses others of racism and sexism. A clear revelation of the SPLC’s political sympathies came when its chief of staff, Lecia Brooks, spoke to a group of armed Marxists who were carrying red banners emblazoned with the Communist hammer and sickle emblem. She used the pronoun “we” to refer to their common aims.
Weill maintains that OFIR is tainted by its loose links to John Tanton, whom she tables as a “white nationalist” and clearly someone beyond the pale of decency. Her evidence is Tanton’s speculation that America’s European-derived culture will recede if its white population declines. This is a view one may dispute, but it’s hard to see anything inherently hateful about it. To illustrate, if white, black and brown immigrants were flooding China, the Chinese might reasonably question the impact of this influx on their culture. Immigration without assimilation, as OFIR’s president so rightly notes, is an “assault on our culture.”
Weill seems to think it‘s outrageous that police would arrest people without proper documents, i.e., illegal aliens. Thus, one can conclude that she doesn’t believe in any restraint on foreign masses wishing to move here. In his book Importing Revolution, William Hawkins documents how radical leftists promote uncontrolled immigration as a means to destabilize American society and further their revolutionary agenda. These “Red supremacists” have many enablers in America’s media.