At CIS, Feere railed on the U.S.-born children of undocumented immigrants—or “anchor babies,” as Mr. “I love the Hispanics” called them during the presidential campaign—by falsely saying “that bearing a child on US soil provides an immigrant access to welfare and other social benefits.” A claim later debunked by Politifact. CIS has also “published articles that labeled immigrants 'third world gold diggers' and that blamed Central American asylum seekers for the 'burgeoning street gang problem,’” according to SPLC’s Heidi Beirich.

Kirchner, the other addition to the Trump team, served as the executive director of another Tanton-created, SPLC-designated hate group, the Federation for American Immigration Reform. For years, FAIR received funding from a white supremacist organization founded by eugenicists with Nazi ties, while simultaneously backing California’s notorious Prop. 187, anti-immigrant legislation (later ruled unconstitutional) that would have barred the U.S. citizen children of undocumented immigrants from accessing a public education and health care access:

Between 1985 and 1994, FAIR received around $1.2 million in grants from the Pioneer Fund. The Pioneer Fund is a eugenicist organization that was started in 1937 by men close to the Nazi regime who wanted to pursue "race betterment" by promoting the genetic lines of American whites. Now led by race scientist J. Philippe Rushton, the fund continues to back studies intended to reveal the inferiority of minorities to whites. FAIR stopped receiving Pioneer Fund grants in 1994 due to bad publicity it received when the grants were made public. At the time, FAIR was backing California's punishing anti-immigrant Proposition 187, which would have denied education and health care to the children of undocumented immigrants in that state if it had not died as the result of court challenges. Stein and Tanton had led FAIR's efforts to win funding from Pioneer, and Stein said in 1993, before Pioneer's extremism was made public, that his "job [was] to get every dime of Pioneer's money."