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View Daniel Stein's ProfileDan Stein is an attorney who has worked for more than 35 years in the field of immigration law and law reform. He has been in his present position as President since January 2003.
Prior to leading FAIR, Mr. Stein was the Executive Director of the Immigration Reform Law Institute, a public interest litigation group that has represented a variety of organizations in immigration and administrative law matters.
Mr. Stein has also been in private law practice in real estate, federal agency litigation, criminal law and tax-exempt corporate law.
A native of Washington, D.C., Mr. Stein’s interest in immigration began as a professional staff member of the U. S. House of Representatives’ Select Committee on Narcotics Abuse and Control, where he studied U.S./Mexico border issues and international crop substitution efforts.
Mr. Stein has published hundreds of articles on immigration policy, and through the years has appeared on national television thousands of times on just about every significant news program in America, has spoken to major groups across America, and has been asked to testify before Congress on related issues over 50 times.
Mr. Stein is a graduate of Indiana University and the Catholic University School of Law.
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FAIR – Immigration Policy: What Should It Be?
We Must Prevent Future Administrations from Opening Our Borders
EmpowerU Virtual Class
www.EmpowerUAmerica.org
,Tuesday, April 1, 2025
What steps has Trump taken to reduce border crossings?
Ira Mehlman, the Media Director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) in Washington, will provide the EmpowerU audience with a comprehensive analysis of the immigration situation in America, and then lay out which corrective actions must be taken to address our immigration challenges.
Ira will discuss the impact of four years of open borders on the American people, who are the primary constituency for U.S. immigration policy. Then he’ll review the policy changes President Trump has made in the first months of his new administration, and how these policies have substantially curbed mass illegal immigration.
Next, Ira will discuss legislation that must be passed in the next several months to prevent future administrations from implementing an open borders policy. Such legislation must prevent rending abuse, prevent future administrations from abusing parole authority, and address well-intended legal settlements that have led to an influx of unaccompanied minors.
Ira will close by providing a blueprint for a rational American legal immigration system moving forward.
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Speaker Bio
Ira Mehlman is the Media Director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). He is a frequent guest on television and radio news outlets around the country, and has published opinion piece in major newspapers and online publications.
Prior to working at FAIR, he was a special assistant to Gov. Richard Lamm of Colorado, press secretary for the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and an adjunct instructor at Hunter College in New York City.
Coalition for the Future American Worker
The Coalition for the Future American Worker is an umbrella coalition of organizations in America that claim that current immigration policies are harming American workers. It includes professional trade groups and grassroots citizens organizations and has run advertisements in several states, including Pennsylvania. Its spokesman is Roy Beck, who is also the founder of NumbersUSA.
Reception
In 2004, the CFAW was condemned for running ads during a congressional election that accused immigrants of abusing the U.S. healthcare system and filling up public schools. The editorial board of the Dallas Morning News called the ads "racially tinged". Both the incumbent Democrat, Rep. Martin Frost, and his Republican challenger called on the CFAW to pull the ads, which Frost said came from "third-party shadow groups with a long history of spewing inaccurate and hateful messages cluttering the airwaves." The Southern Poverty Law Center reported that Frost called the ads "racist." CFAW spokesman Ira Mehlman said the ads informed voters about the legislation sponsored by Frost that would grant amnesty to over a million illegal aliens in Texas and import 250,000 more workers, driving down wages.
FactCheck.org reported that controversial ads CFAW ran in Iowa that same year were regarded as "factually accurate," even by those who opposed their message. The author of a study cited in the ad complained about its use in what he called "borderline racist, anti-immigration advertisements."
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) goes to greater lengths than any other law enforcement agency to be sensitive in how it carries out its duties. The agency refrains from arresting illegal aliens near schools, houses of worship, and other locations in deference to those institutions and what they stand for.
In recent years, advocates for illegal aliens have sought to bar ICE from carrying out enforcement activities in courthouse – you know, the sort of places where criminals show up after they’ve been arrested for committing crimes. And, since in many jurisdictions around the country, local governments refuse to honor ICE requests to hold deportable criminals they’ve arrested for other offenses, ICE has been forced to arrest them as they come out of court.
Some judges – folks in black robes who have sworn to honor and uphold laws – have gone so far as to aid and abet criminal aliens in their efforts to evade ICE officers waiting to take them into custody. Elsewhere, activist prosecutors have chosen to drop charges against defendants rather than risk having them picked up by ICE when they show up in court.
And, on Dec. 12, a group of 70 former state and federal judges sent a letter to Acting ICE Director Ron Vitiello asking him to further constrain ICE’s activities out of concern for their impact on “the administration of justice and public safety.” We are still waiting for the 70 former jurists to pen a letter to sanctuary jurisdictions asking them to honor ICE detainer requests so that ICE does not need to arrest people at courthouses. We expect it will be a long wait.
Absurdity, of course, is the hallmark of our era. So, 70 judges objecting to a law enforcement agency enforcing laws in public places dedicated to ensuring that law are enforced should come as no surprise. When it came to addressing social absurdities, no one did it better than the late Theodore Geisel. And so, with apologies to Dr. Seuss and those who may love Green Eggs and Ham, we
- Ira Mehlman joined the Federation