Anti-Immigrant Groups Blame Immigrants for BP Oil Spill

Originally posted at Imagine 2050.  Imagine 2050 is project which includes activists, immigrants, artists and students who are invested in a future nation that embraces multiculturalism and tolerance.

Anti-Immigrant Groups Blame Immigrants for BP Oil Spill
June 18, 2010

By Rebecca Poswolsky
www.imagine2050.net

Amidst an environmental crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, anti-immigrant groups in the John Tanton Network see the BP oil spill as an opportunity to – wait for it – blame immigrants.

BP can’t contain the oil spill and the anti-immigrant movement can’t control its tendency to blame immigrants for every bad thing in America. On the ground, people are cleaning up oil, protesting BP, and fighting to protect their communities. Anti-immigrant leaders associated with The John Tanton Network posit a different response all together.

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Chicken Little, Immigrants are causing the sky to fall

Our partners over at FIRM, gave us this good laugh today. Apparently, the sham policy institute, Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) came out with a report this week blaming global warming on immigration.

For those that don't know, CIS is an offshoot of the anti-immigration organization, Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). Just when you thought FAIR's scapegoating couldn't get any more ridiculous, they go and surprise us.

In response to the CIS "report", Paco Fabián, Communications Director of America's Voice had this to say.

“We eagerly await the next CIS report, blaming immigrants for high gas prices, steroids in baseball, and the decline of the network sitcom. No matter the day, no matter the subject, their one-size-fits-all approach to policymaking conveniently blames immigration for all of society’s ills. If CIS was so concerned about the environment, you’d think they wouldn’t have wasted the paper to print this drivel. Wrapping anti-immigrant sentiment in pseudo-academic research doesn’t disguise the extreme absurdity and agenda of CIS.”

Definitely well said.

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