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In 2013, FAIR has played a major role fighting the immigration reform bill, part of a [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/28/immigration-reform-framework_n_2566494.html/ proposal] introduced by a bipartisan group of senators in January.<ref name="PRwatch Immigration Article">Katie Lorenze, "[http://www.prwatch.org/news/2013/05/12128/scaife-funded-network-works-hard-kill-immigration-reform Scaife-Funded Network Works Hard to Kill Immigration Reform]," ''PRWatch.org'', May 31, 2013.</ref> FAIR has received over nearly $6 15 million in donations from the ''Colcom Foundation'', started by Cordelia Scaife May of the [[Scaife Foundations]], a close friend of [[John Tanton]] and a strong supporter of anti-immigration laws.<ref name="PRwatch Immigration Article"/> FAIR has provided [http://www.fairus.org/publications/immigration-fueling-u-s-income-inequality "studies"] linking immigration reform to income inequality and crime, and its president, [[Dan Stein]], published an op-ed in ''Politico'' in opposition to the immigration bill.<ref name="PRwatch Immigration Article"/> However, the evidence Stein incorporates to support the idea that immigration reform is harmful to the United States turns out to be [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/11/fair-presidents-anti-immigration-reform-op-ed-g/193590/ wrong], as proven by Simon Maloy in his blog for [[Media Matters for America]].<ref name="PRwatch Immigration Article"/>