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 The Coalition for the Future American Worker (CFAW) is one of several front groups created by the John Tanton Network in an attempt to conceal its extremist agenda. The purpose of the “coalition” is to give the Network an appearance of support of organized labor and African Americans.

Although it calls itself a coalition, CFAW is actually the creation of two anti-immigrant organizations with controversial ties to white nationalists, the Washington D.C.-based Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR) and the Virginia-based American Immigration Control Foundation (AICF). FAIR was founded by controversial anti-immigrant leader John Tanton, while AICF has strong ties to the white nationalist Council of Conservative Citizens.

John Tanton has supported and published racial eugenics authors, and two former FAIR employees have been publicly associated with the Council of Conservative Citizens, the reconstituted 1950’s White Citizens’ Councils. AICF president John Vinson is an advisor to the Council of Conservative Citizens and his writings appear frequently in its flagship paper, the Citizens Informer.

This is not the only connection that these two leading organizations have to white nationalist groups. FAIR and AICF have both received funding from the white supremacist foundation the Pioneer Fund (FAIR alone solicited and received 1.2 million). The foundation was formed in 1937 to fund the pseudo-science known as racial eugenics, which purports to show that African Americans are less intelligent than whites because of their genetic makeup.

In addition, other connections between CFAW, FAIR, AICF and other John Tanton Network organizations include:

• According to the Southern Poverty Law Center, FAIR's president, Dan Stein, also is president of CFAW. Stein has also contributed to John Tanton’s quarterly journal, The Social Contract.
• Roy Beck, head of NumbersUSA, a FAIR offshoot organization, was identified as a CFAW spokesperson. In 1997, Beck was also a featured speaker at the annual conference of the Council of Conservative Citizens, formerly known as the White Citizens’ Councils.
• Frank Morris, board member for the Tanton Network’s Center for Immigration Studies, was featured in a CFAW television ad campaign launched in February 2009, according to a story carried on the PRNewswire-USNewswire. Morris is also chairman and co-founder of the now defunct Choose Black America. Choose Black America was another front group for the Tanton Network developed explicitly to influence African Americans.
• CFAW’s website is registered to FAIR’s webmaster, Karl Filippini, and uses FAIR's address in Washington, D.C.

Other members of CFAW’s "coalition" include organizations with ties to FAIR. They include:

• The American Engineering Association, a member of CFAW, has received financial support from U.S. Inc.
• A CFAW “coalition” member, the American Jobs Coalition, was created by Glenn Jackson. Jackson is a member of FAIR’s national board of Advisors.
• American Immigration Control Foundation’s board member, Phil Kent, has been listed as the media contact for US Immigration Reform PAC, headed by the John Tanton Network. Kent is also a board of director for Pro-English, a group financially supported under Tanton’s foundation, U.S. Inc.

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Coalition for the Future American Worker (PDF)

John Tanton Network Map (PDF)