PFIR - Progressives for Immigration Reform - is not a progressive organization.
Who says so?
Well, we can turn to the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), which has documented decades of hate groups across the United States.
They say that PFIR is a front group - astro-turf - for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) which was founded by white nationalist John Tanton.
• Progressives for Immigration Reform (PFIR), a new organization that purports to represent liberal environmentalists, is headed by Leah Durant, an attorney who once worked for the nativist Immigration Reform Law Institute, the legal arm of FAIR. John Tanton, who remains on FAIR's board, has written about the need to use progressive or liberal environmental organizations as a means of insulating nativists against charges of racism."
But what if we don't want to accept the word of the SPLC? Who elected them the last word, right? Well, one thing we could do is look at the words of
John Tanton himself:
"I've come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that."
– Dec. 10, 1993, letter to the late Garrett Hardin, a controversial ecology professor.
SPLC Report: Nativists Appealing to Environmentalists are 'Wolves in Sheep's Clothing'