| Monthly Anti-immigrant Profile: Center for Immigration Studies |
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Every month, the Center
for New Community releases one of John Tanton’s personal letters or
memos, illustrating John Tanton’s close relationships with white
nationalists and the formation of today’s anti-immigrant movement. The
letters and memos are a public collection at the Bentley Historical
Library. In the early fall of 1985, John Tanton began laying the financial groundwork to build his anti-immigrant think-tank. In a fundraising appeal Tanton states that, “the funding could come through U.S., Inc. instead of FAIR, if that helped keep the amounts going to any one organization to more acceptable levels. We’re in the process of setting up as independent projects both the Center for Immigration Studies and the Litigation Program.” In a document dated September of 1985, John Tanton describes the intent behind the founding of the Center for Immigration Studies. In the document, Tanton highlights that it’s essential to develop an “independent” think-tank to win the “Battle of Ideas”.
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