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Update (2/7/19): Ann Coulter responded to this piece on Twitter by repeatedly attacking me for being Asian, which further demonstrates why it's problematic that a senior ICE official has celebrated her work:

An Asian is going to explain racism to us. Apparently it has nothing to do with black people. It's all about IMMIGRANTS. https://t.co/8pWmtJYNq3 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 7, 2019

I wonder if this position would be of any personal benefit to Eric Hananoki ... https://t.co/tTo3qnQ8j3 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 7, 2019

For more of Coulter's meltdown in response to this post, click here

Original post:

Before joining U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a senior official, Jon Feere repeatedly praised Ann Coulter and promoted her bigoted columns against immigrants. In those pieces, Coulter asked, “What's the upside of admitting 250,000 poor, culturally backward, non-English-speaking Muslims every year?” ; said, “We want remarkable Americans, not immigrants whose selling point is: 'hasn't blown anything up yet'” ; and told “angry Muslims” criticizing “anti-Muslim bigotry in the U.S.” to go live in “low-rent mud huts” overseas.

Feere is a senior adviser for ICE at the Department of Homeland Security. He also worked as an adviser on President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and as a legal policy analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies, a virulently anti-immigrant and nativist group that was founded by white nationalist John Tanton.

Feere also promoted the white nationalist publication VDare on Twitter and gave a 2012 interview about immigration to the anti-Semitic publication American Free Press.

Coulter is a longtime commentator whose right-wing views have become influential with Trump. She wrote the 2016 book In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome but has recently criticized the president over his failure to secure funding for the wall he wants to build on the U.S.-Mexico border. She frequently promotes VDare and credits VDare head Peter Brimelow with influencing her views on immigration and her 2015 book Adios, America.

Coulter is a bigot, especially against Muslims. Feere promoted her columns in which she wrote: “What's the upside of admitting 250,000 poor, culturally backward, non-English-speaking Muslims every year?”; “Angry Muslims have been popping up all over TV to denounce Trump and complain about anti-Muslim bigotry in the U.S. If they'd prefer a country with a larger Muslim population and no white devil oppressors, low-rent mud huts are available in any of about 50 Muslim countries around the world”; and “Muslims pouring into our countries and committing mass murder isn't natural at all. It's the direct result of government policy. It's as if the government were dumping rats in our houses.”

ICE did not provide a comment to Media Matters about Feere's promotion of Coulter by publication time.

Here are over a dozen of Feere’s tweets about Coulter from 2014 to 2016:

.@AnnCoulter: “We want remarkable Americans, not immigrants whose selling point is: 'hasn't blown anything up yet'.” https://t.co/7GQ1soXeff — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) December 10, 2015

From Coulter’s column that Feere linked to in his tweet:

We want remarkable Americans, not immigrants whose selling point is: “hasn't blown anything up yet.” What's the upside of admitting 250,000 poor, culturally backward, non-English-speaking Muslims every year? When are we allowed to talk about what's good for America? ... How else have the 1.5 million Muslims admitted since 9/11 made our country better? Their massive welfare use? Overburdening our schools and hospitals? The machete attacks? The clitorectomies? The honor killings? The occasional terrorist attack?

.@AnnCoulter: “We don't owe citizens of other countries anything. But as long as you brought it up: They owe us.” https://t.co/7GQ1soXeff — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) December 10, 2015

From Coulter’s column that Feere linked to in his tweet:

The hysterical demand for never-ending Third World immigration has gone beyond the rich's need for cheap servants and the Democrats' need for voters. It's a mass psychosis. Everyone acts as if Pakistani pushcart operators are the same as American blacks, and we're required to bring them here to make up for the legacy of slavery. Foreigners aren't the descendants of American slaves! The rest of the world does not have a civil right to move here. We're under no moral imperative to allow any immigration at all. We don't owe citizens of other countries anything. But as long as you brought it up: They owe us. America runs around saving other countries from tsunamis, earthquakes, pirates, disease, starvation, warlords, dictators, Nazis, communists -- then their citizens show up full of grievances, as if we owe them. Angry Muslims have been popping up all over TV to denounce Trump and complain about anti-Muslim bigotry in the U.S. If they'd prefer a country with a larger Muslim population and no white devil oppressors, low-rent mud huts are available in any of about 50 Muslim countries around the world. First month free; after that, two goats a month.

COULTER: “Muslims pouring into our countries and committing mass murder... the direct result of government policy.” https://t.co/AbYrbkj4HR — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) March 23, 2016

From Coulter’s column that Feere linked to in his tweet, which also quoted VDare head Peter Brimelow:

All this would be perfectly normal if we were talking about an earthquake or some other natural disaster -- something humans have no capacity to prevent. But Muslims pouring into our countries and committing mass murder isn't natural at all. It's the direct result of government policy. It's as if the government were dumping rats in our houses, and then, whenever someone died of the plague, those same government officials issued heartfelt condolences, Twitter lit up with sympathetic hashtags and the Times editorialized about effective rodent control, but no one ever bothered to say, Hey! Maybe the government should stop putting rats in our houses! When people are killing in the name of their religion, it's not an irrelevancy to refuse to keep admitting more practitioners of that religion. But this is the madness that has seized Europe and America -- a psychosis Peter Brimelow calls “Hitler's revenge.” Apparently, what we have learned from Hitler is not: Don't kill Jews. To the contrary, the only people who openly proclaim their desire to kill Jews are ... Muslims. What we've learned from Hitler is not: Don't attempt to seize hegemonic control over entire continents. The only people vowing to conquer the world are ... Muslims. And what we've learned from Hitler is not: Beware violent uprisings of angry young men. The only hordes of violent, angry young men are, again ... Muslims. (And Trump protesters.)

Ann Coulter: If Immigration Continues Like This, ‘We Will Have 100 Years of Obamas’ http://t.co/xF3CHCG6U7 #immigration — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) October 16, 2015

Illegals are “unafraid” of being held accountable for their lawlessness. This is how a society crumbles. http://t.co/ZxGAQEGnti @AnnCoulter — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) July 2, 2015

Ann Coulter: “To help all Americans what we need now is an immigration moratorium, both legal and illegal.” http://t.co/g3udAr6X0c — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) July 1, 2014

It's a twofer: Illegal alien mob validates @AnnCoulter's latest book (http://t.co/GE8WgG0anm) and her previous (http://t.co/vpcE9rxKF7). — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) July 3, 2015

CPAC just sent an e-mail announcing Glenn Beck will be a speaker. I'll consider buying a ticket when @AnnCoulter is confirmed. #CPAC2016 — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) February 16, 2016

Target also reveals that @AnnCoulter's key demographic is powerlifters who like doughnuts. I knew I wasn't alone! pic.twitter.com/H2CUm69RgB — Jon Feere (@JonFeere) June 5, 2015

Coulter's meltdown in response to the post:

An Asian is going to explain racism to us. Apparently it has nothing to do with black people. It's all about IMMIGRANTS. https://t.co/8pWmtJYNq3 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 7, 2019

Forget the Middle Passage, Uncle Tom's Cabin, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Civil Rights.... Racism is only about ASIAN IMMIGRANTS! -- Eric Hananoki https://t.co/8pWmtJYNq3 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 7, 2019

I wonder if this position would be of any personal benefit to Eric Hananoki ... https://t.co/tTo3qnQ8j3 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 7, 2019

Hey, black people! Eric Hananoki will tell you what's racist! pic.twitter.com/S8zjrHY5Sd — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 7, 2019

Have you ever noticed all the good anti-racism jobs are going to Asians? Eric Hananoki: Racism Slayer! pic.twitter.com/vepzz79O77 — Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 7, 2019