A February 2009 report by
Southern Poverty Law Center examined Tanton's written correspondence
[20] highlighted alleged connections between Tanton's immigration-reduction efforts and
white supremacist,
neo-Nazi and pro-
eugenics leaders.
[21]
The introduction to the report reads:
FAIR, CIS and NumbersUSA are all part of a network of restrictionist organizations conceived and created by John Tanton, the “puppeteer” of the nativist movement and a man with deep racist roots. As the first article in this report shows, Tanton has for decades been at the heart of the white nationalist scene. He has met with leading white supremacists, promoted anti-Semitic ideas, and associated closely with the leaders of a eugenicist foundation once described by a leading newspaper as a “neo-Nazi organization.” He has made a series of racist statements about Latinos and worried that they were outbreeding whites. At one point, he wrote candidly that to maintain American culture, “a European-American majority” is required.
[21]
Groups started
A 2002 SPLC report listed 13 immigration-restriction groups which they said were founded and/or funded by Tanton.
[22]
- American Immigration Control Foundation - AICF, 1983, funded
- American Patrol/Voice of Citizens Together - 1992, funded
- California Coalition for Immigration Reform - CCIR, 1994, funded
- Californians for Population Stabilization - 1996, funded (founded separately in 1986)
- Center for Immigration Studies - CIS, 1985, founded and funded
- Federation for American Immigration Reform - FAIR, 1979, founded and funded
- NumbersUSA - 1996, founded and funded
- Population-Environment Balance - 1973, joined board in 1980
- ProEnglish - 1994, founded and funded
- ProjectUSA - 1999, funded
- The Social Contract Press - 1990, founded and funded
- U.S. English - 1983, founded and funded
- U.S. Inc. - 1982, founded and funded
