Help Save Maryland calls itself a multi-ethnic, grassroots, citizens' organization dedicated to providing facts regarding illegal aliens who live and/or work in Maryland by fostering public awareness and education, supporting analyses and research, facilitating effective engagement by citizens in the Maryland legislative process, and providing helpful facts for citizens otherwise frustrated by Maryland policies that encourage illegal immigration.
According to records from the Maryland Department of Assessments and Taxation, Help Save Maryland is chartered as a nonprofit out of Greenbelt. These records list Robert Fireovid (formerly know as Bloksberg-Fireovid) as resident agent. Mr. Fireovid works for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and is also linked to a group calling itself Citizens for a Steady State Economy, conveniently located at the same address in Greenbelt and seemingly interested in overpopulation.
Help Save Maryland's director, Brad Botwin, doesn't like illegal immigration. Mr. Botwin works as an economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce. He wants to put hot salsa in your tea cups to get you worked up about the illegals, who he blames for all the money government spends.
The Southern Poverty Law Center has identified Help Save Maryland as a nativist extremist group. In 2007, when someone sets a day-labor center for immigrant workers run by Casa de Maryland, on fire, Botwin told The Washington Post that the laborers may themselves have started the fire. Later, in an apparently unrelated incident, Wesley James Queen pleaded guilty to making threatening telephone calls to Casa; Botwin claimed he had never heard of Queen and renounced violence, but never renounced his statement blaming the 2007 fire on immigrant workers. Queen later apologized to Casa and blamed his actions on the Republican Party. Although Maryland Hate Groups Watch does not believe that the Republican Party is a hate group, we note that Botwin is a Republican Party donor.
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