White Nationalist Pits Latinos Against Blacks

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, Think Progress

A white nationalist famed for creating influential immigration-restrictionist groups is bankrolling a black anti-immigration march set to take place on July 15 of this year. John Tanton — a man who has declared his preference for whites and published articles by racist writers who have referred to black Americans as “a retrograde species of humanity” — is using his network of anti-immigration groups as the financial force behind the event.

The Black American Leadership Alliance (BALA) is the latest iteration of black pseudo-advocacy groups created by Tanton’s groups, which include the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and Numbers USA. BALA’s predecessor, Choose Black America, was also created by the same groups.

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