Miami Civil Rights Activist Star of New Immigration Reform Ad
"T. Willard Fair, an ally of former Gov. Jeb Bush, is the new face of opposition
to proposals like one championed by President Bush to allow undocumented immigrants to gain citizenship. Fair, president of the Urban League of Greater Miami, is appearing in ads in The Washington Post and RollCall, a Capitol Hill newspaper, saying that 'to black Americans, amnesty is an immoral seizure of our jobs,'" the Miami Herald reports.
"The ads are sponsored by the Coalition for the Future American Worker. Its members include the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which wants to beef up border security, end illegal immigration and cut legal immigration in half. 'I see illegal immigration and the adverse impact that it has on the political empowerment of African Americans, and the impact it has on the job market,' Fair, a political independent, said in a telephone interview with The Miami Herald."
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