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What's FAIR Got to do with it?
By Tom Barry

Today, the chairwoman of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
(FAIR), Nancy Anthony, can rightly claim that FAIR is “front and center
in what has emerged as one of the defining political issues of the
early 21st century.” By positioning itself to the right of the
Sensenbrenner bill and the president’s own proposal, FAIR aims to keep
pushing its own extremist reform proposals into the mainstream and into
the center of the policy debate. 

In the absence of bipartisan support for a moderate and more pragmatic
immigration reform bill, FAIR and other restrictionist forces have good
reason to believe that their “common sense” agenda of criminalizing
immigrants, driving them deeper into the country’s economic and social
underground, and walling ourselves in will continue to gain traction in
today’s political climate.

Tom Barry is policy director of the International Relations Center,
online at: www.irc-online.org.

See new IRC commentary online at: 
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/rw/3053

With printer-friendly pdf version at: 
http://rightweb.irc-online.org/pdf/0601fair.pdf

For related IRC analysis see:

Reframing the Immigration Debate: The Actors and the Issues

and IRC's Right Web Profiles: 
Tom Tancredo

John Tanton

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