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About FAIR : FAIR's Principles Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform 7 Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform

True immigration reform, as the overwhelming majority of Americans envisage it, entails establishing a coherent set of national interest principles for immigration policy and then enforcing our laws. In response to efforts by open border advocates to cloak themselves in the mantle of "immigration reform," FAIR, the nation’s largest immigration reform organization, has laid out Seven Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform. FAIR participates in the Combined Federal Campaign - #1211 Download a flyer and get more information

Our Goals:

to end illegal immigration through enforcement of existing immigration laws as well as the application of new technology; to set legal immigration at the lowest feasible levels consistent with the national security, economic, demographic, environmental and socio-cultural interests of the present and future. Our Objectives:

to increase public awareness and understanding of the causes and effects of immigration through sharing research and policy analysis; to inform leaders in academe, government, and the media, as well as the public at large of the costs of uncontrolled immigration; to influence public policy directly by lobbying (to the extent permitted by our tax status) and by protecting the citizens' rights in the courts. FAIR advocates:

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FAIR: 7 Principles of True Comprehensive Immigration Reform | FAIR http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_aboutlist49f3

that our immigration laws must be fairly and effectively enforced; that the means exist to end illegal immigration by humane measures that are consistent with our democratic ideals and existing laws; that immigration should not be permitted to undermine opportunities for America's poor and vulnerable citizens to improve their working conditions and wages; there should be no favoritism toward or discrimination against any person on the basis of race, color, or creed; that all admissions of immigrants come within a single, stable ceiling which is periodically reviewed on the basis of reasoned, explicit population goals for the United States; that three criteria should guide selection of immigrants: (1) our fair share of refugees, with ultimate resettlement a key part of the program (2) our national manpower policy, and (3) concerns for reunification of nuclear families; that the United States should not contribute to a brain drain that entices away the skilled and talented who are desperately needed in their homelands; we should meet our need for skilled professionals by training and retraining our own; that the United States should make greater efforts to encourage population stabilization, economic development, and alleviation of poverty worldwide and especially in countries of great migration; that the era of mass international migration to the United States as a solution to international problems must come to an end; problems of poverty and overpopulation must be vigorously confronted where people live, rather than postponing their solution by either the export or the importation of masses of people; that determining its own immigration and population policy is the sovereign right and responsibility of every nation.

Federation for American Immigration Reform 25 Massachusetts Ave., NW, Suite 330 Washington, DC 20001 Tel: (202) 328-7004 Fax: (202) 387-3447 Site Map

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