Latino Immigration

Pro Immigration - http://www.nclr.org/

The National Council of La Raza is the largest Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organisation in the United States which works to improve the opportunities for Hispanic Americans. This website can be said to be pro Latino immigration as the organisation wants to help Latino immigrants to have better opportunities in America so that they are able to have a better life in American than in their homeland and also be able to gain legal access to the United States.

The NCLR wants to fight for the right of young Latino's to be able to continue to work in America and contribute to the American economy without fear of being deported back to their home country. They support President Obama's executive order which introduced the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) which has enabled young people to stay in the country and work. As you need to apply to this program, the organisation helps the community and individuals to apply and fill in the application form. In May 2015, it will be possible for parents of current US citizens to be able to apply for deferred action under the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability, which will enable the parents of the children who have already made it to the US to be able to join them and work.

The NCLR are in favour of Obama's Order as they believe it will try and partly solve the problems which the country has with immigration, as well as improving the country itself. They believe that by allowing people to more easily apply to work in the US, it will help stop people entering the country illegally, meaning that they can have background checks, which will in turn improve National Security as the government will have a better idea about who is coming in from where and turn them away if they can be threat to the country. They also believe this order will strengthen the economy as it means that immigrants will more likely be working legally and contributing to taxes and could stop employers being able to exploit illegal workers by not paying them a national wage. But overall, they believe that the order will try and stop the stigma about Latino workers and the belief that many work illegally and don't contribute to the economy, which makes integrating into American society a lot harder.

Overall, the website is very informative about many issues concerning Latino immigration and integration into American life. They provide educational programs so that it can help unskilled workers get jobs that are worth having and gives advice about CV's and interviews with prospective employers. It is obvious that this organisation supports Latino immigration and wants them to be able to thrive in the US so to have a better life.

Anti Immigration - http://www.americanworker.org/

This website is for the Coalition for the Future American Worker, which claims that it is an "umbrella organisation of professional trade groups, population/environment organisations, and immigrant reform groups". They are working and were formed to "represent the interests of American workers and students in the formulation of immigration policy". They believe that the current immigration laws and reform is having a detrimental effect on the American workforce as they believe that, not just Latino, immigrants are reducing the possibilities that an American has of getting a job as they are getting there first.

Their main argument is that they believe that American workers are better suited to American jobs as they are more creative and can do the job better than any other person. They believe that American companies need to focus more on the American workers and students for training and job opportunities as it would benefit American prosperity in a better way. To stop this from happening further, they are campaigning for tighter immigration laws so that unskilled workers and illegal immigrants are less likely to get into the country to take jobs from tax paying American workers. They claim that their goal is "to find solutions that will ensure that employers can gain access to workers they truly need, while protecting job opportunities for American workers and students and allowing them to advance their skills and maintain high wages".

Overall, I don't think that this website is completely Anti-Latino Immigration as they are just concerned about the loss of opportunities that mass immigration is causing in America. I think they just want large employers to stop giving jobs to low skilled immigrants just because they cost less to employ, and give more opportunities to Americans who, they believe, would be able to benefit the company of the organisation better.