Reported next immigration appointee, Julie Kirschner
“FAIR, which Kirchner led from 2007 to 2015, was founded in 1979 by John Tanton, who has espoused a reduction in immigration in order to protect “an ethnic white majority” and is a proponent of eugenics. According to the S.P.L.C., some of FAIR’s backing has come from the Pioneer Fund, which, among other things, reportedly funds studies on the “‘science’ of breeding superior human beings that was discredited by various Nazi atrocities.” A former staffer on the Minnesota House Judiciary Committee, Kirchner was “considered a key legislative strategist in FAIR’s advocacy of state-level anti-immigrant measures,” according to a 2017 New Yorker report. When she was first hired at D.H.S. in 2017, as an adviser to Customs and Border Protection’s acting commissioner, former C.B.P. head of internal affairs James Tomsheck warned that “bringing someone like her into the agency will only validate the distorted view of immigrants at the border that too many agents already have.” In other words, she’s the perfect person to lead Trump’s immigration “services.” (D.H.S., U.S.C.I.S., and Kirchner did not respond to Politico’s requests for comment.)
