The anti-immigrant and antigovernment biker crew Riders United for a Sovereign America (Riders USA) may have thought they'd found a fellow traveler when a college professor agreed to speak to their group on Monday night in Arizona.
The anti-immigrant and antigovernment biker crew Riders United for a Sovereign America (Riders USA) may have thought they'd found a fellow traveler when a college professor agreed to speak to their group on Monday night in Arizona.
As President Trump’s immigration plan was formally announced last week and reiterated during his State of the Union speech last night, anti-immigrant groups, notably the “Big Three” Beltway groups, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA have decried, in unison, the plan as an “amnesty,” but the nativist measures in it are initiatives these groups have pushed for decades.
The video is intended to shock: A young, red-haired girl is smiling at her phone while she walks down a suburban sidewalk, passing a swarthy man with a goatee wearing a hoodie who the narrator identifies as an “illegal immigrant.”
As the national debate over immigration continues to rage, white nationalist leaders have also been weighing in.
Officials from ProEnglish, a longtime anti-immigrant hate group founded by white nationalist John Tanton, recently visited the White House and met with a senior legislative aide to the President, according to a January 23 post on the ProEnglish website.
After President Donald J. Trump declared Haiti and other black-majority countries a “shithole” during a meeting about immigration on Thursday, some of his white supremacist followers took it as a good sign.
In a crude moment seemingly borne in frustration over a bipartisan immigration deal, President Trump lashed out at the idea of restoring protections for immigrants from Haiti, El Salvador and African countries.
After being bounced from his career as Maricopa County Sheriff in Arizona, Joe Arpaio is now tossing his hat into the race for U.S. Senate.
In Southern California, once-prominent nativist Joseph Turner has returned to anti-immigrant activism, forming a new organization in 2017 that announced ballot initiatives in several local jurisdictions targeting undocumented children and so-called sanctuary cities.
Roy Moore, the Republican nominee and extremist who lost the December 12 special senate election in Alabama, has filed a “voter fraud" complaint in the state of Alabama and named an antisemite and conspiracy theorist as two of his voting "experts."