Palo Alto: A History of California, Capitalism, and the World Highlight

Tanton kept spinning off more dedicated organizations, including Numbers-USA (a “grassroots” version of FAIR) and the Center for Immigration Studies (the policy arm). If there has been any anti-immigrant effort in the United States between 1980 and today, it’s a virtual certainty that some part of the Tanton complex is involved.68 He died in 2019, living long enough to see a new generation of mainstream bigots like Stephen Miller and Kris Kobach pick up the reins.