Potential DHS Hire Jon Feere Promoted Anti-Immigrant White Nationalist Website
Classic Thug imho!
https://mediamatters.org/blog/2017/01/27/potential-dhs-hire-jon-feere-promoted-anti-immigrant-white-nationalist-website/215155
Potential DHS Hire Jon Feere Promoted Anti-Immigrant White Nationalist Website
Feere Also Discussed Immigration In Interview With Holocaust-Denying Anti-Semitic Website
January 27, 2017 11:21 AM EST ››› ERIC HANANOKI
Policy analyst Jon Feere, who is reportedly “in line” to join the Trump administration, has promoted the work of the white nationalist website VDare.com and given an interview about immigration to an anti-Semitic newspaper that promotes claims that the Holocaust is a “hoax.”
The Washington Post reported that Feere “is in line to join the Trump administration in an immigration-related position at the Department of Homeland Security, according to two former U.S. officials informed of transition changes by department personnel.” The paper noted that Feere is a “prominent advocate of ending U.S. birthright citizenship” and has worked as a legal policy analyst for the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS).
CIS is an anti-immigrant group founded by John Tanton, a white nationalist who has claimed that “a European-American majority” is required to maintain American culture. The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) has heavily criticized the nativist group for releasing shoddy research and pushing misinformation about immigrants.
Feere wrote on Twitter that the “reality is that many pro-illegal immigration people simply hate Americans and believe that foreigners are superior in every way.”
Feere has also promoted the work of the white nationalist anti-immigrant site VDare on his Twitter account. He linked to an article on the site in an April 9, 2016, tweet:.................................
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