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Comments from leaders of the Federation for American Immigration Reform:

"As Whites see their power and control over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion?" — FAIR founder and current board member John Tanton, Oct. 10, 1986.

"I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that." — John Tanton, in a letter to eugenicist and ecology professor Garrett Hardin (now deceased), Dec. 10, 1993.

"Immigrants don't come all church-loving, freedom-loving, God-fearing. ... Many of them hate America, hate everything that the United States stands for. Talk to some of these Central Americans." — FAIR President Dan Stein, interviewed by Tucker Carlson, Oct. 2, 1997.

"I blame 98 percent of responsibility for this country's immigration crisis on Ted Kennedy and his political allies, who decided some time back in 1958, earlier perhaps, that immigration was a great way to retaliate against Anglo-Saxon dominance and hubris, and the immigration laws from the 1920s were just this symbol of that, and it's a form of revengism, or revenge, that these forces continue to push the immigration policy that they know full well are (sic) creating chaos and will continue to create chaos down the line." — FAIR President Dan Stein, "Oral History of the Federation for American Immigration Reform," interview of Dan Stein by John Tanton, August 1994.

"Projections by the U.S. Census Bureau show that midway into the next century, the current European-American majority will become a minority. ... This is unacceptable; we decline to bequeath to our children minority status in their own land." — FAIR founder John Tanton in a March 3, 1993. memo to a FAIR board member.

Source: Southern Poverty Law Center