Hispanic/Latino Immigration

http://latinosunited.org/immigrationreform/

Latinos United for Immigration Reform (LUIR) is a website in favour of Hispanic/Latino immigration. They describe themselves as a “campaign led by Latino leaders and organisations from across the political spectrum, representing business, labor, community, faith and civil rights advocates coming together to urge the passage of comprehensive immigration reform that is based on the following principles: provides earned legalisation and a path to citizenship for hardworking undocumented immigrants and their families; Promotes economic growth by creating workable legal immigration channels aligned to the needs of our economy while upholding labor protections; Preserves family unity and reduces family backlogs; Restores the rule of law through smart enforcement that improves safety, prevents discrimination and respects due process.”

The website uses facts in order to argue claims made by people like Huntington are simply not true, for example, Huntington quotes Alex Villa, a third-generation Mexican in Tucson, Arizona, as saying that he knows almost no one in the Mexican community of the South Tucson who believes in “education and hard work”… and the high level of immigration from Mexico sustains and reinforces the prevalence of Mexican values among Mexican Americans. The website however evokes the fact that during the 1990s immigrants developed more than one-third of Silicon Valley high-tech start-ups and that Between 50% and 70% of the nation’s 1.2 million agricultural workers are undocumented, and U.S. citizens will generally not take such jobs, even in difficult economic times.

 http://www.immigrationcontrol.com

Americans for Immigration Control (AIC) is an American non-partisan grassroots activist organisation with more than a quarter of a million members; which further add that they are citizens of all races, creeds, and colours. The organisation was founded in 1983 and promotes “stopping the millions of illegal aliens who sneak across our border from Mexico every year.” 

The organisation summarises itself as being about encouraging concerned citizens to join in their efforts to secure America’s borders, not, however, before astutely stating their collective anger at Mexicans dubbing them “illegal aliens” and typecasting said people as terrorists, drug smugglers, and simply illegals. The AIC further states, “If we don’t take action now, the surging flood of legal and illegal immigrants from Mexico and Central America will soon form a majority in California and the Southwest. Some of these Latino militants are already organizing to form those states into a new nation called AZTLAN. If and when that happens, these United States will be united no more!”

Although the LUIR gives valid and well constructed points in its advocacy for Hispanic/Latino immigration, its would appear that should they ever encounter a group such as the AIC not much would seemingly be resolved since the American for Immigration Control typically demonstrate a hispanophobic attitude, thus issues such as those raised by Huntington will persist.