LETTER: Why does F.A.I.R. deserve credibility?
Published: July 3, 2009
I was surprised the News & Messenger would headline a recent “study” by F.A.I.R. on the costs of undocumented immigrants in Virginia (June 25).
By virtue of the headline, the paper gave instant credibility to the numbers in the study. F.A.I.R. is as biased as other extremist groups in making up statistics, taking others out of context, forming
unfounded conclusions and otherwise serving as a lobby group for their causes. The article did point out that the Southern Poverty Law Center characterizes F.A.I.R. as a “hate group.”
The June 20, 2007 report by President Bush’s Council of Economic Advisers concluded that taken together, immigrants contribute a net of $30 billion a year to the U.S. economy. Perhaps President
Obama and the current Congress can come up with some rational long-term solutions to this matter.
KEVIN M. RAYMOND
Dale City
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If F.A.I.R is a hate group then SPLC must be one too, since they both do similar things. They poll, perform studies, etc. etc. What is the criteria that SPLC judges an organization by? Can we see that criteria list? Hmm, hmm, if not then they are just another suspect special interest group. To be perfectly frank and honest, anything with such an attachment to Jimmy Carter is automatically suspect in my book. LOL Chris Cummings
“any study by any interest group is suspect.“ “illegals are a drain, most people “know” this.“
So, most people “know” illegals are a drain? What is your definition of “know” & by what rationale have you determined that most people “know”?
Do most people “know” that those aliens imported by employers - to do jobs employers “can’t find” Americans to fill - are also a drain? They send money back to their country of origin & they take jobs Americans could fill - the unemployment rate is at least 10 percent. What about foreign professional athletes & entertainers? How many American athletes & entertainers are unemployed?
Are there “studies” by “interest groups” in those areas?
so you pick and choose which parts of the study you want to believe then bash the whole study in it’s entirety? makes a whole lot of sense. any study by any interest group is suspect. the SPLC? they designate just about anything as a “hate group” when you paint such a large swath it’s difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.
I keep hearing that 30 billion number, I would call that suspect. is that number weighed by what they actually cost the american taxpayer? what they earn under the table and send home? a rational person would suspect any study, since it’s not possible to accurately quantify the amount of illegals here (since they are “undocumented”) it’s pretty tough to do an accurate study.
illegals are a drain, most people “know” this.
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