FAIR isn't fair (except in color)

Why does so much of the media continue to interview spokespersons from FAIR (The Federation For American Immigration Reform) as if it were a reliable source of facts about immigration?

The Southern Poverty Law Center has long been documenting what FAIR really stands for. That documentation, especially concerning their founder John Tanton, is superabundant. Here are a few examples of FAIR verbiage:

* They have insisted that America needs a "European-American majority."

* They have stoked fear over what they call a "Latin onslaught."

* They have fretted that Latinos are "outbreeding" white people.

Founder Tanton -- age 77 and also the founder of the Center For Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA, among other racist organizations -- has promoted the sterilization of unmarried mothers and suggested that less intelligent people be kept from having children. He has a long history of connections with white supremacists, Holocaust deniers, KKK lawyers and the Pioneer Fund. He has defended the 1924 national origin quota system that also banned the immigration of Asians.

All of this is evil enough, but now we have some egomaniacal politicians using racist suggestion around the country as they scramble for votes. It's gonna be a very rough year.