Tanton shared many of his extremist beliefs with May, sending her, for example, anti-Semitic material by Kevin MacDonald in 1998, so that she would gain вЂњa new understanding of the Jewish outlook on life, which explains a large part of the Jewish opposition to immigration reform.вЂќ They would talk strategy, with Tanton once explaining in a letter that вЂњfor credibilityвЂќ he had decided to separate the Center for Immigration Studies ( CIS) from FAIR in 1986 so it would appear independent. Tanton had long been close to May, whom he affectionately called 'Cordy' in his personal correspondence. Seeing Rohe at Colcom perhaps should not be surprising. Rohe also wrote an over-the-top biography of Tanton and his wife, Mary Lou and John Tanton: A Journey into American Conservation, that depicts them as saints. In the 1990s and early 2000s, Rohe was TantonвЂ™s right-hand man at his foundation, U.S., Inc., which runs The Social Contract Press, serving for years on its board and as CEO in the mid-2000s. RoddyвЂ™s article exposed something else of interest: that ColcomвЂ™s vice president for philanthropy is John Rohe. Two Tanton-linked organizations listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups - the Social Contract Press and the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) - are among those that received funds in the past from Colcom. RoddyвЂ™s article showed how the Colcom Foundation, founded by Cordelia Scaife May, a now-deceased heir to the Mellon banking fortune, had given money to extremists such as Samuel Francis, a white nationalist who edited a newsletter for the Council of Conservative Citizens (CCC), a group that has advocated racial separation and believes blacks to be a вЂњretrograde species of humanity.вЂќ The foundation started by May, who died in 2005, also donated massive amounts of money over several decades to the various anti-immigrant institutions created by John Tanton, a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who is the orchestrator of the modern nativist movement.

Supporting the summit, a gathering of finance ministers from 20 countries including Mexico, seemed an odd move for a foundation that also backs groups who claim Latinos are invading the U.S. A recent story by veteran reporter Dennis Roddy at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette uncovered something odd: a major Pittsburgh foundation that has long supported prominent white nationalist and anti-immigrant haters has also given money to the welcoming committee for the September G-20 summit to be held in Pittsburgh.

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