Center for Immigration Studies
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| Motto | Pro-Immigrant, Low-Immigration |
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| Formation | January 9, 1986 |
| Founder | John Tanton |
| Type | Public policy think tank |
| 52-1449368 | |
| Headquarters | 1629 K Street N.W., Suite 600 |
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Executive Director
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Mark Krikorian |
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Revenue (2015)
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$2,907,224 |
| Expenses (2015) | $2,670,635 |
| Website |
Official website YouTube |
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is a non-profit research organization "that favors far lower immigration numbers and produces research to further those views." Founded in 1985 as a spin-off from the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR). The center's self-described mission is to provide immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States.
Several reports published by the CIS have been disputed by scholars on immigration; a wide range of think tanks; fact-checkers such as PolitiFact, FactCheck.Org, Washington Post, Snopes, CNN and NBC News; and by immigration-research organizations. Critics have accused the CIS of extremist nativist views and for ties to white supremacy groups, which the CIS rejects.
The CIS was founded by John Tanton, whom CNN describes as "a retired Michigan ophthalmologist who has openly embraced eugenics, the science of improving the genetic quality of the human population by encouraging selective breeding and at times, advocating for the sterilization of genetically undesirable groups."The Hill notes that Tanton's opposition to immigration is driven by a desire for population reduction and protection of an ethnic white majority.
The founding CIS Board Members were:
Several of the founding members are still on the Board, which is headed by former U.S. Attorney Peter Nuñez and includes Jan C. Ting of Temple Law School and T. Willard Fair from the Urban League of Greater Miami.George Borjas, Professor of Economics and Social Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School has been a CIS fellow and served one term on its board.
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