The anti-immigrant movement mobilized before 9/11 but used the fuel of the anti-immigrant policies and rhetoric post 9/11 to become the movement they are today.
Anti-Immigrant
The A term used to describe organizations, movements, ideas, and policies that oppose immigrants and immigration. Learn more movement encompasses organizations, movements, ideas, and policies that oppose immigrants and immigration, particularly immigrants claimed by this movement to be unassimilable. The major institutions of the policy-oriented anti-immigrant movement in the U.S.—the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), and NumbersUSA—have always been in a dialogue with A social movement based on a belief in biologically determined racial hierarchies, often with the ultimate goal of establishing an all-White nation state. Learn more , flowing both from the beliefs of their founder/principal instigator John Tanton and by the thought leadership of White nationalists.
