In South Carolina: the ascendency of Tea Party nativism
While all eyes were focused on the Republican Party primary in South Carolina, five hundred Tea Partiers gathered in Myrtle Beach on January 15 and 16...And anti-immigrant fever ran high.
Signs of the ascendency of Tea Party nativism appeared in the form of speakers Tom DeWeese, Colin Heaton, and Mike Cutler. DeWeese, who has described immigrants as a "Mexican Fifth Column," is a popular conspiracy-monger on both the Tea Party and John Birch Society circuits. Heaton proposed concentration camps for immigrant labor and prisoners, so they can build a double-doozy wall on the Mexican border, cheap (watch video below). Cutler, who was billed as a "counter terrorism expert," is one of the central figures in the Tea Party Immigration Coalition described in IREHR's latest special report. So he, too, spent some time condemning immigrants and the Americans who want to give them safe harbor or a path towards citizenship.
http://www.irehr.org/issue-areas/tea-party-nationalism/tea-party-news-and-analysis/item/389-more-evidence-for-beyond-fair
