Federation for American Immigration Reform

The Federation for American Immigration remake reasonable is the non profit, anti-immigration company in the United States. The house publishes position papers, organizes events, as well as runs campaigns in layout to advocate for changes in U.S. immigration policy. The Southern Poverty Law Center classifies reasonable as a hate multinational withties to white supremacist groups.

FAIR was founded in 1979 by Michigan surgeon together with white supremacist John Tanton. Other co-founders put Otis Graham and former Gulf Oil CEO, Sydney Swensrud. it is for currently headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Reception

The Southern Poverty Law Center SPLC currently classifies FAIR as a hate group, citing among other things the organization's anti-Latino and anti-Catholic attitudes, its acceptance of $1.2 million from a racist foundation, the Pioneer Fund, its hiring as key officials men who also joined white supremacist groups, having board members who also write regularly for hate publications, its promotion of racist conspiracy theories, and the white supremacist beliefs of its founder. In 1982, John Tanton wrote "As Whites see their power to direct or setting and authority over their lives declining, will they simply go quietly into the night? Or will there be an explosion." The SPLC issued an intelligence relation in 2007, after which they added FAIR to its list of hate groups.

FAIR responded to this charge by stating that there is no factual basis for the accusation; that FAIR has compiled a long record of mainstream credibility and respect on immigration issues and has always opposed discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, or religion; and that the accusation is an "act of desperation, resulting from the SPLC's failure to convince the American people of their viewpoint."

In August 2018, FAIR's former press secretary, Joe Gomez, reported a complaint with the Washington, D.C. Office of Human Rights, alleging racist, xenophobic, and ableist harassment at FAIR. Gomez's Attorney Chris Bell, accused FAIR of misrepresenting the settlement to media outlets by wrongly saying the D.C. Office of Human Rights dismissed the complaint because it had no merit. Instead, the office dismissed the complaint because a settlement was reached, according to Bell. "If they go forward to misrepresent the truth, I'm going to brand the record straight," Bell said. "There was never an agreement [FAIR] could go out and misrepresent the truth."