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The '''Federation for American Immigration Reform''' (FAIR) is an anti-immigration group that has been branded a hate group by the [[Southern Poverty Law Center]] (SPLC).<ref name="SPLC"/> FAIR calls itself an "organization of concerned citizens who share a common belief that our nation's immigration policies must be reformed to serve the national interest."<ref>Federation for American Immigration Reform, [http://www.fairus.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_aboutmain About], organizational website, accessed September 14, 2008.</ref> It was formed in 1979 by population control advocate and nativist [[John Tanton]], who believes that immigration is a significant part of the US population "problem," and is part of the anti-immigrant [[John Tanton Network]].<ref>Institute for Policy Studies, [http://www.rightweb.irc-online.org/profile/Federation_for_American_Immigration_Reform "FAIR Profile"], ''RightWeb'' organizational website, accesed accessed 2008?.</ref><ref name="NYT">Jason DeParle, [http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/17/us/17immig.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0 "The Anti-Immigration Crusader"], ''New York Times'', April 17, 2011.</ref>

FAIR played a significant role in drafting Arizona's controversial SB1070 anti-immigrant law, which has been successfully challenged by the US [[Department of Justice]].<ref>Andrew Cohen, [http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/06/razing-arizona-supreme-court-sides-with-feds-on-immigration/258932/ "Razing Arizona: Supreme Court Sides With Feds on Immigration"], ''The Atlantic'', June 25, 2012.</ref><ref>Andrea Nill Sanchez, [http://thinkprogress.org/security/2010/04/22/176018/immigration-reform-law-institute/?mobile=nc "The Group Behind The Harshest Immigration Bill In America"], ''Think Progress'', April 22, 2010.</ref> According to the FAIR website, "FAIR's legal affiliate, the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI)[,] assisted [Arizona] Senator [[Russell Pearce|Pearce]] in drafting the language of SB1070."<ref>Federation for Immigration Reform, [http://www.fairus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=22725&security=1601&news_iv_ctrl=1741 "If Washington Won't, Arizona Will"], organizational press release, April 14, 2010, accessed September 2, 2010.</ref>

In 2013, FAIR has played a major role in 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, "[httphttps://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 nearly $15 million in donations from the [[Scaife Foundations|Colcom Foundation]], started by Cordelia Scaife May, a close friend of [[John Tanton]] and sister to [[Richard Scaife]] of the right-wing [[Scaife Foundations]].<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 cited to support the idea that immigration reform is harmful to the United States was called "[http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/11/fair-presidents-anti-immigration-reform-op-ed-g/193590/ wildly misleading, unsubstantiated, or flat-out wrong]" by [[Media Matters for America]].<ref>Simon Maloy, [http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/04/11/fair-presidents-anti-immigration-reform-op-ed-g/193590/ FAIR President's Anti-Immigration Reform Op-Ed Gets Almost Everything Wrong], ''Media Matters for America'' organizational article, April 11, 2013.</ref>