Ann Corcoran has been on a bit fixated on a recent study finding that ending birthright citizenship would constitute an effective tax on all new births in America and a reference Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, made to those findings.
While I didn’t find much worthy of response in her three articles on the subject, one thing did jump out at me:
Hate to tell you this Ann, but it might be a good idea to actually look into the groups you routinely cite from before casting aspersions. From a quick search of her blog I found the following:
- 41 posts making use of NumbersUSA material, which openly states in its About section that it is motivated by “beliefs in environmental sustainability, economic justice, the rule of law, and individual liberty, and opposition to federal immigration policies that threaten these values by forcing massive U.S. population growth.” NumbersUSA also complains about loss of open space due to population growth putting it squarely in line with the smart growth planners behind PlanMaryland that Corcoran is so rightly incensed about.
- 25 posts drawing from material by the Center for Immigration Studies, which has a whole section of its website devoted to enviromentalist, pro-zero-population-growth arguments for its anti-immigrant agenda.
- And at least 5 posts pertaining to the Federation for American Immigration Reform, another anti-immigration organization that proudly works to spread enviromentalist arguments in support of its agenda (due to their acronym being FAIR, it is a bit harder to tell which posts of hers are about the group and which just use the word “fair”).
And to just make the picture a bit clearer, all three groups are part of the network of anti-immigration organizations founded by John Tanton, a proponent of radical Malthusianism, population growth alarmism, and zero-population growth.
Also potentially interesting to Ann, besides his involvement with anti-immigrant organizations, he’s also been actively involved with a couple of groups she holds less than kind opinions of:
- The Sierra Club
- Planned Parenthood
Now personally I tend to try and avoid condemning an organization just because someone tied to it is tied to things I dislike. But in this case I do hope that this rather revealing information leads Ann to rethinking her openness to studies put out by anti-immigration groups and even moreso her commitment to the anti-immigration agenda.
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