Local and national media outlets are citing anti-immigrant extremist groups to discuss Biden’s immig

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Local and national media outlets are citing anti-immigrant extremist groups to discuss Biden’s immigration plan

The Associated Press, NPR, NBC, and multiple news outlets serving immigrant communities have recently quoted extremist groups like CIS and FAIR

Written by Courtney Hagle

Published 01/22/21 10:32 AM EST

 As President Joe Biden recently unveiled his plan to reform U.S. immigration policy, some legacy national and local media outlets have been quoting well-known anti-immigrant extremist groups to provide commentary on the plan.

Days before he was sworn in as president, Biden disclosed that he was going to propose ambitious plans for an “overhaul of immigration laws” on his first day in office, including creating “an eight-year pathway to citizenship for immigrants without legal status.” Qualifying immigrants would receive a temporary status for five years and then a green card once they meet certain requirements, becoming eligible to apply for citizenship three years later.

In their coverage of the plans, some national and media outlets have irresponsibly turned to the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), two extremist organizations that the Southern Poverty Law Center deems hate groups. Both organizations were founded by John Tanton, a white nationalist and eugenicist who created a network of anti-immigrant groups and has expressed an explicit desire to keep the U.S. a majority-white country through limiting immigration. According to the SPLC, one of FAIR’s main goals is “upending the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which ended a decades-long, racist quota system that limited immigration mostly to northern Europeans,” and FAIR President Dan Stein has called the act a “mistake.” And while CIS claims to be “pro-immigrant,” the think tank has a decadeslong history of circulating white nationalist, anti-immigrant, and anti-Semitic writers in its newsletters, and the organization has been repeatedly called out for its extremism.

https://www.mediamatters.org/immigration/local-and-national-media-outlets-are-citing-anti-immigrant-extremist-groups-discuss

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This is really a cleverly designed attack on conservatives and their views.  In the headline they claim the positions of the right are "extremist" with the implication they are anti-American and should not be heard.  They are going right along with Facebook and Twitter.