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But he worked closely with Tanton’s protégé Roy Beck and attended national gatherings of Tanton-affiliated groups.

Kolankiewicz took a job with Roy Beck, the Tanton protégé and former Washington editor of The Social Contract, who went on to found a slightly less strident “immigration reform” organization called NumbersUSA.

Kolankiewicz told me he and Beck hoped to resurface issues of overpopulation and distinguish the fight against mass immigration from prejudice against immigrants.

John Tanton had said them, and the reasoning had been echoed by Leon Kolankiewicz and Roy Beck and NumbersUSA and Tanton’s other organizations.

Beck began making regular visits to Langer’s Deli and Mama’s Tamales, which had windows on the park, and checked with owners Norm Langer and Sandi Romero on neighborhood developments, grievances and strategies.