SPLC Report: An ‘American Legion’ booklet, full of anti-immigrant falsehoods

America’s largest veterans organization has launched another campaign — a hard-line attack on undocumented immigrants that’s at odds with the legion’s mainstream image. As part of this effort, the legion, which purports to speak for 2.7 million members, recently issued a booklet that regurgitates discredited and often completely false information about how “illegals” are bringing crime, disease, and terrorism to this country, even as they wreck the economy for natives.

   An American Legion post in East Haven, Conn., opened its doors last year to anti-immigration
   activists including Walter Moore (with sign). (AP)

The legion’s 34-page booklet, A Strategy to Address Illegal Immigration in the United States, asserts that “poverty, political instability, disease and war” are “on our back doorstep” because of porous borders and the failure of the government to stringently enforce immigration laws. But in making its case, the legion repeatedly cites dubious sources, ignores well-known facts and makes baseless claims — such as the false assertion that the undocumented infected more than 7,000 people in America with leprosy during a recent four-year period…..[ more ]

NOTES: CNN’s Resident “Anti-Immigrant Nativist,” anchor Lou Dobbs, repeated and popularized false claims about immigrants and leprosy. When confronted by “60 Minutes” and numerous critics, Dobbs refused to correct his statements, saying his program did not make errors.

Lou Dobbs is a major media Bigot. A Racist, Xenophobic Extortionist of NAZI proportions — in the mode of Dr. Joseph Goebbels — “Minister for Public Enlightenment & Propaganda in Nazi Germany.” Lou Dobbs’s anti-immigrant campaign is very similar to that conducted against Jews in NAZI Germany…..[ more ] [ Lou Dobb's NAZI Propaganda ]