It has since forged links with a number of the groups that led California's anti-immigrant movement in the mid-1990's and have been seeking a national platform ever since.
A "new anti-immigrant" movement has become apparent in some European countries, especially the Netherlands, Scandinavia, and Switzerland, during the early 21st century.
At the time you also had a very strong anti-immigrant movement in California, so people didn't want to go there or they wanted to move from the West Coast to the East.
Conversely, an anti-democracy movement may promote democratic outcomes by stimulating democratic counter-action by other citizens or self-serving countermeasures by public officials; an example would be unsuccessful anti-immigrant movements.
Some anti-immigrant and Nativism movements, like the Know Nothings in the 1950s and the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s, have also been anti-Catholic.
Last week The Washington Post carried a powerful article decrying the anti-immigrant movement.
Sharing the program is "Natives," a short documentary by Jesse Lerner and Scott Sterling about the anti-immigrant movement in San Diego.
The growing anti-immigrant movement is partly a response to this variant of a wider European issue.
There remains today a palpable strain of xenophobia in the anti-immigrant movement.
The first powerful anti-immigrant movement was a response to the volume and character of the huge mid-19th-century influx from Ireland and Germany.