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Anti-Immigrant Group’s Comments Following Arizona Tragedy Are Shockingly Insensitive

Jill Garvey, Imagine 2050. January 18, 2011.

Anti-immigrant groups, no matter how extreme or divisive their agenda, continue to position themselves as mainstream voices.

Investigation Reveals the Deception Behind the Anti-Immigrant Movement

Jill Garvey, Imagine 2050. December 3, 2010.

A new investigative report blows the lid off of FAIR, the nation's leading restrictionist group.

Nativist Group Comes Unhinged Over GOP's "Pledge to America"

Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact. October 8, 2010.

FAIR is not pleased with the Republicans' promises.

The Tea Party: At Last a Citizen Movement the Corporate Media Can Love

Peter Hart, Steve Rendall, Extra!. May 26, 2010.

The hateful, ignorant, haphazardly-organized Tea Party movement receives a level of press coverage few progressive citizen groups will ever see.

Nativist Group Blames Immigrants for Unemployment and Low Wages

Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact. March 24, 2010.

The portrait of the U.S. economy that emerges from a new FAIR report is one in which every misfortune since 1980 is somehow tied to immigration.

Anti-immigrant Forces Target Struggling American Communities

Jill Garvey, Imagine 2050. February 20, 2010.

Arizona’s Maricopa County is the latest local community targeted by the most influential anti-immigrant network in the country.

Announcing the 2009 P.U.-Litzer Prizes

FAIRDecember 28, 2009.

The stinkiest examples of corporate media malfeasance, spin and just plain outrageousness.

Hate Group, FAIR, Is Looking for "Ethnically Ambiguous" Actors to Amplify Its Racism

Adam Luna, America's Voice. November 24, 2009.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform is holding auditions to promote hate. Here's how you can get the part!

Controversial Anti-Immigrant Network Invades the Nation’s Capitol

Eric Ward, Imagine 2050. September 14, 2009.

The mainstream media chose to ignore the racist connotations of Obama as nothing more than man in Black Face.

GRITtv: The Future of Independent Media

Laura Flanders, GRITtv. August 13, 2009.

Laura Flanders, Jeff Cohen and co. explore and celebrate the origins and success stories of the new, independent media.

Armed Radical 'Minutemen' Kill Father and 9-Year-Old Daughter in Anti-Immigrant Hate

Sally Kohn, Center for Community Change. June 18, 2009.

Right-wing hate groups are hijacking America's economic distress to push their lethal agendas.

Hardline Anti-Immigration Group Targets VA Immigrants ... and Kids

Walter Ewing, Immigration Impact. June 16, 2009.

Educating U.S. citizens is an investment in our future, not a sunk cost.

Stimulus Spin: Unauthorized Immigrants Will Get Construction Jobs

Joshua Holland, AlterNet. March 10, 2009.

But the hardliners' one-note tune actually tells a different story.

The Top Three Anti-Immigration Groups Share Extremist Roots

Mark Potok, Southern Poverty Law Center. February 4, 2009.

A nasty web of racism lies behind three D.C. organizations that work against immigration reform.

Fair Pay: Decent Wages Must Be Part of Obama's Jobs Package

Art Levine, In These Times. January 12, 2009.

Decent wages -- and strengthened union organizing -- must go hand-in-hand with any economic recovery plan.

Major Anti-Immigrant Figure Can't Pretend He's Not a Racist Anymore

Heidi Beirich, SPLC's Hate Watch. September 23, 2008.

Exposed: FAIR founder John Tanton's 20 years of correspondence with racists and white supremacists.

Congressional Event Perpetuates Myth of Immigrant Criminality

Staff, Immigration Policy Center. September 12, 2008.

Some Republicans in Congress are doing this country a grave disservic, by perpetuating the lies about immigrant criminality,

As Dobbs Prepares for Air, Hate Group Holds Own Feet to Fire

Staff, AmericasVoiceOnline. September 10, 2008.

In an unusual move, the hate group FAIR denounces itself for using "inflammatory language" to "silence proponents of immigration reform."

Where Anti-Immigrant Zealots Like Lou Dobbs Get Their 'Facts'

Heidi Beirich, SPLC Intelligence Report. December 17, 2007.

The media keeps turning to racist group FAIR for its "expertise."

Which Babies Are Real Americans?

Priscilla Huang, TomPaine.com. February 21, 2007.

Anti-immigration hysteria and anti-choice propaganda come together in a neat and terrifying package.

If Romney Hates Government And Its Workers So Much Why Is He Running For President?

Dave Johnson, December 31, 1969.