LETTER: Why does F.A.I.R. deserve credibility?

By: | Stafford County Sun
Published: July 03, 2009

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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