Anti-Immigrant

For nearly 40 years, there has been a coordinated, well-funded effort to limit both authorized and unauthorized immigration in the U.S. The movement leading this effort is largely comprised of groups with ties to racist eugenics and White nationalism and have been the ideological driver of policies intended to malign and criminalize immigrant communities. The contemporary anti-immigrant movement’s work and activity can be seen across the country and has become an integral part of the Right’s agenda. PRA provides information and analysis on these activities to immigrant communities and allies—informing their resistance to bigoted and repressive policies and to uphold our shared humanity.

101: Far-Right Sheriffs

Who These are the sectors of the Right setting the cultural context and/or organizing right-wing sheriffs. Anti-immigrant Right Anti-immigrant organizations like the…

White Borders

Author Q&A with Reece Jones

Over the past 30 years, the U.S. Southern border has become an increasingly volatile political force. Trump built his political identity on demonizing immigrants and promoting spectacles of border fortification: the promise of a wall, expansive…

Far-Right Alignment of County Sheriffs and the Violent Policing of Immigrant Communities

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The inhumane treatment and deportations of Haitian refugees from our southern border underscores what we already suspected: that the U.S. anti-immigration movement, which thrived under President Trump, has yet another champion in President Biden and…

A Wider Type of Freedom

Author Q&A with Daniel Martinez HoSang

A protester holding a sign that reads "people over pipelines"

In the last year, a record number of people took to the streets in protest of systemic racism and police violence. But over the same time period,…

21st Century White Nationalism

9/11 and the Anti-Immigrant Movement

Three men in army training suits running along a large metal fence

More than two decades ago, during the 2000 election, leading anti-immigrant group Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) offered a glimpse of things to come. Amid his reelection campaign, FAIR targeted U.S. Senator Spencer Abraham (R-MI…

The Politics of Belonging

Refugees, Islam, and Germany’s Far Right

A red banner that reads "No Alternative! Fight Right Wing Answers to the Crisis"

This April, Fox News’s Tucker Carlson elevated a narrative that has long festered on the Far Right to the conservative mainstream, when he used his show to promote the conspiratorial “Great Replacement” theory. That’s the idea that the so-called “…

Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right

Author Q&A with Brendan O'Connor

Although some markers of the Trump presidency may be fading, the xenophobic, exclusionary nationalism it helped elevate remains a defining force in U.S. politics. Within the same two weeks this April, Fox News host Tucker Carlson helped mainstream…

Pulling Up the Ladder

The Anti-Immigrant Backlash

“Many persons who have spoken and written in favor of restriction of immigration, have laid great stress upon the evils to society arising from immigration. They have claimed that disease, pauperism, crime and vice have been greatly increased…

Reactionary Power in the Union

The Repercussions of Politicized Law Enforcement

Protesters gathered. A woman holds up a sign that read Back the Blue.

On January 6, a right-wing mob took over the U.S. Capitol with relative ease. Among many things this made clear—including the continued threat of far-right violence, reinforced by movement misogyny^{^[1]}—the…

Beyond Pizzagate

Anti-Immigrant Conspiracists Traffic Fear in Southern Arizona

Humanitarian worker Joel Smith knew it would be difficult to reason with the man who had been knifing and draining his water tanks in the Southern Arizona desert. Michael Lewis Arthur Meyer, a non-veteran who nonetheless heads the anti-immigrant…

Pro-confederacy protestor holds up a confederate flag, a counter-protestor raises a fist in response.

In January 2019, Rick Joyner, head of Morningstar Ministries, an important New Apostolic Reformation parachurch organization,^{^[1]} claimed to have received a prophetic vision in a dream in the form of a…

Nothing is Untouched

The Aftermath in Chemnitz

The sun was high and the air thick with a weighted August heat as we sat down for lunch at Schmetterling, a Persian restaurant in the heart of Chemnitz, Germany. Anne Gersch, a staff member of Courage, a project that facilitates anti-discrimination…

President Donald J. Trump gives a thumbs-up as he is presented with a plaque of recognition by “The Nation’s Sheriffs,” Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, at the South Portico of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Joyce N. Boghosian)

Targeting local sheriffs and other law enforcement is an effort by FAIR to complement this direct access to the administration and develop support for its agenda outside the Beltway.

National Sheriffs’ Association’s Winter Education and Legislative Conference in Washington, D.C., Feb. 6, 2017.

Technological tools to increase law enforcement’s surveillance capacity will be showcased at this year’s annual National Sheriffs’ Association (NSA), Education and Technology Expo from June 14-18, heightening concerns regarding law enforcement’s…

Sheriffs are elected at the county level, and in most cases operate without any direct oversight. This presents an opportunity for White nationalists and other right-wing movements, particularly …

U.S President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence look on as Sheriff Thomas Hodgson of Bristol County Massachusetts delivers remarks in the East Room of the White House September 5, 2018 in Washington, DC.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced a new effort in May 2019 to expand the reach of its deportation machine. ICE’s new Warrant Service Officer (WSO) program allows local police officers to effectively become federal immigration…

Although these state and federal officials tried to distance themselves from militia organizing, New Mexico’s constitutional sheriffs cumulatively have taken actions that signal that militias are welcome in the state.

Supreme Court building, Washington, DC, USA.

The contemporary anti-immigrant movement, which has established influence at various levels of the administration, has promoted and attempted to litigate changing the census to reveal citizenship status for nearly 40 years.

Protesters hold various signs and banners at a DACA rally in San Francisco.

The influence of organized anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim movements is readily apparent in policy changes over the last two years.

Advancing Immigrant, Muslim, and Refugee Justice In A Period Of Ascendant White Nationalism

Executive Summary

This report seeks to document the effects of the rise of a White nationalist movement whose policy prescriptions and rhetoric on immigrant, refugee, and Muslim populations echo the White House’s, and to generate new thinking and strategizing to…

In August 2018, 16 of Oregon’s 36 sheriffs signed a letter in support of ballot measure 105, the referendum in the November 6 election to repeal Oregon’s 31-year-old sanctuary law.

Protest of the Muslim Ban, Washington, D.C., January 2017.

Since the Trump administration came into office, anti-Muslim sentiment has become a glue that binds this administration’s national security leadership with anti-Muslim organizations, White nationalist organizations, and anti-government militia.

Protesters rally against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in San Francisco, February 2018.

On July 17, the Oregon Secretary of State’s office approved signatures for Initiative Petition 22, a ballot measure that could repeal the state’s so-called sanctuary law. Oregon voters will now vote in November whether to keep or repeal the 1987 law…

Los Angeles march for Immigrant Rights, 2017.

The racism, nationalism, and misogyny driving the Trump administration’s assault on immigrants is evident to all but a willfully ignorant majority on the Supreme Court of the United States. Whether in exclusionary policies like the…

101: Far-Right Sheriffs

White Borders

Far-Right Alignment of County Sheriffs and the Violent Policing of Immigrant Communities

A Wider Type of Freedom

21st Century White Nationalism

The Politics of Belonging

Blood Red Lines: How Nativism Fuels the Right

Pulling Up the Ladder

Reactionary Power in the Union

Beyond Pizzagate

Battle With Bullets: Advancing a Vision of Civil War

Nothing is Untouched

While Courting Sheriffs, FAIR Flaunts Access to Administration

The National Sheriffs’ Association Alignment with Far-Right Groups Undermines Public Safety

How a Right-Wing Network Mobilized Sheriffs’ Departments

The National Sheriffs’ Association Strengthens the Deportation Machine

New Mexico’s Constitutional Sheriffs Pave the Way for Militias Patrolling the Border

The Right’s Decades-Long Fight for A Census Citizenship Question

White House Ties to Anti-Immigrant and Anti-Muslim Leaders

Advancing Immigrant, Muslim, and Refugee Justice In A Period Of Ascendant White Nationalism

Support for Oregon’s Ballot Measure 105 Reveals Collaboration Between Right-Wing Sheriffs and Anti-Immigrant Networks

Anti-Muslim Sentiment Binds National Security and White Nationalist Forces Under Trump

Oregon referendum latest flashpoint in anti-immigrant efforts

Rise or Fall Together

Immigrant Justice and the Right Wing's Eliminationist Agenda

When Secure Communities Meet Border Security

Basta Dobbs!

Nativist Bedfellows

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