The Immigration Reform Law Institute (or IRLI) is an organization that was founded by the Federation for American Immigration Reform (or FAIR) and acts as their legal arm to work on legal cases that deal with the laws and regulations surrounding the country's current policies on illegal immigrants and how those polices impact U.S. citizens.

The stated goal of the IRLI is to work "exclusively to protect the legal rights, privileges, and property of U.S. citizens and their communities from injuries and damages caused by unlawful immigration." In other words, they have taken the stance that illegal immigration can and does hurt American citizens, and their staff is on hand to offer legal and legislative assistance to U.S. citizens, businesses, or organizations that have, in some way, been harmed by illegal immigration.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform and the IRLI both believe that when immigration is continues in such an uncontrolled way, it can cause serious harm. The efforts of the IRLI are focused on bringing attention to the organizations and companies that are allegedly ignoring the current immigration laws.

The IRLI will get involved with many different types of cases. They often offer consultation and help to people who feel they have experienced discrimination in the work place because the employer prefers to employ illegal immigrants or because the employee voiced their opinions about the those policies. The IRLI says it doesn't have the resources to help all the cases that request help, but they have a long history of litigation in these kinds of cases.

In the business world, the IRLI represents and consults with various companies that feel they are facing unfair business practices because their competition is hiring illegal immigrants. This gives the competition an unfair advantage and can cause the company that hires only legal residents to lose contracts, revenue, and profit.

Both the IRLI and the Federation for American Immigration Reform have stated that they believe there are many problems stemming from illegal immigration, such as the declining wages and work conditions that U.S. citizens have to deal with because companies discriminate in favor of illegal immigrant labor. This is one of the things that add to the unfair business practices above.

The IRLI pursues other areas of litigation, too. They have pointed out other problems like the illegal immigrants in the schools that require extra resources or special treatment. This can have an adverse effect on the educational experience for other students. Some of the other litigation revolved around the landlords that filled their properties with illegal residents and created some very poor living conditions.

The Federation for American Immigration Reform will continue to use the IRLI as their legal affiliate to pursue these cases on a local and state level. This is where they believe they can have more success than they would at the federal level.