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@nprpolitics @jaclynmdiaz did a report on Biden's effort to stop MPP - a horrific Trump Admin policy that created a massive humanitarian crisis - and they decided that they should have on a leader of a hate group with deep ties to white nationalism on to criticize Biden's plan.
@nprpolitics @jaclynmdiazhad Dan Stein of The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) a radical anti-immigrant group founded by a white nationalist that looks to masquerade as a think tank to peddle junk data and xenophobic policies. https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/federation-american-immigration-reform
FAIR, founded by white nationalist John Tanton helped found a network of anti-immigrant hate groups who have pushed anti-immigrant legislation and xenophobia into the mainstream for the last several decades. Culminating w/ their influence on Trump Admin. https://americasvoice.org/blog/trump-administration-and-white-nationalists/
The Tanton network deeply influenced Trump and Stephen Miller's cruelty and chaos approach to immigration, an approach that created policies like MPP. https://americasvoice.org/blog/remain-in-mexico-mpp/
Trump often cited language pushed by Tanton and his network. One of the most egregious was use of the term “immigrant invasion.” That was the title of a book Tanton co-authored in 1996. A sentiment echoed but the white nationalist El Paso shooter in 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/it-had-nothing-to-do-with-us-restrictionist-groups-distance-themselves-from-el-paso-shooter-who-shared-similar-views-on-immigrants/2019/08/08/c44dd7f8-b955-11e9-a091-6a96e67d9cce_story.html
@DefineAmerican understands that sources matter and to simply describe FAIR as "immigration hard-liners" is insufficient @nprpolitics @jaclynmdiaz https://download.defineamerican.com/2019/06/190614-SourcesMatter.pdf
Despite the known and deep connections to white nationalism @nprpolitics @jaclynmdiaz thought FAIR had something their millions of readers needed to hear WITHOUT providing context that it is a hate group with deep ties to the Trump Admin.
No one is saying @nprpolitics @jaclynmdiaz should be uncritical or not to ask tough questions about the plan. But featuring a hate group only serves to legitimize them and to confuse your viewers unnecessarily.
Amplifying the voice of a hate-group is not both-sides journalism. Quality news like @nprpolitics @jaclynmdiaz need to do better.
