Pro/Anti Latino Immigration Groups

Pro - 'Latinos United for Immigration Reform': http://latinosunited.org/immigrationreform/

"Latinos United for Immigration Reform is an unprecedented campaign led by Latino leaders and organizations from across the political spectrum, representing business, labor, community, faith and civil rights advocates coming together to urge the passage of comprehensive immigration reform. The mission of Latinos United for Immigration Reform is to advocate for comprehensive immigration reform that includes a roadmap to citizenship."

This group believes that the U.S. "Immigration System is Broken" and presents, on a page labelled 'Facts', information as to why immigration reform is good for the country and points out the ways in which the current  regime for immigration is faulty and against Latinos. The use of these statistics and figures makes the page seem legitimate, however it doesn't actually state anywhere where these came from, so could potentially be bias and constructed to cater to the intended audience. The website sets out its ideas as to how it could be fixed, "Any comprehensive immigration reform passed by Congress should contain the following principles..." and goes on to list quite a few ideas. I believe this puts the group in quite good stead, as they actually have pro-active thoughts to help the argument, instead of constantly stating the faults as many other websites do they offer potential solutions.

The group's identity seems to heavily play on the idea of patriotism. Their logo is a red and white star on a blue background, obviously derived from the country flag, and the colour scheme of the entire website continues this. Pictures of young Latino-American people holding the flag are shown on the page, with focus on a youth wearing what looks like a navy uniform whilst clutching a small flag in a picture. This is clearly done to invoke a positive response from the readers of seeing these people as undeniably American, and not perhaps any other denomination, emphasising that there is no difference between, for example, Latino-Americans and White-Americans in their identities as American. There is also a heavy play on families, and the "devastating impact on vulnerable Latino families" that current legislation has. This again panders to the engrained values of America, but is sincere as it follows with more statistics about the impact.

Anti - 'NumbersUSA': https://www.numbersusa.com/

This group isn't necessarily against the immigration of Latino people, but instead focus on "choosing the right number of authorized immigrants for future years. To choose a lower number does not imply anything negative about the immigrants who already are legally in this country. We're talking about the future number that is best for both U.S.-born and foreign-born citizens." That quote is from founder Roy Beck. They seek to reduce the number of immigrants coming to the U.S. saying it is "pro-immigrant" in regards to permanent immigration. This however could be seen as contradictory, as they use an umbrella-like term but then focus only on one type of immigration. 

They also say "We oppose nativism in the law and private actions; Americans should be treated equally regardless of where they were born. Neither race nor ethnicity should be factors in setting or debating immigration policies." Which is a good motto and should be true, however they go on to show which immigrants they feel shouldn't be accepted to stay in America. "1.) Extended-family "chain migration". 2.) The visa lottery. 3.) Employment-based visas for foreign workers of non-extraordinary skills that can be supplied by our own population. (When a true spot labor shortage arises, it should be met by temporary—not permanent—work visas.)" This selective procedure follows their motto, however I'm also sure that there would be examples  of it being untrue if it were to be used. Yet they again show a more open-minded ideology compared to other anti-immigration groups by saying "Immigrant bashing, xenophobia, nativism, and racism are unacceptable responses to federal immigration policy failures. Race and ethnicity should play no role in the debate and establishment of immigration policy."

Comparing the two, their messages are made very clear from the first page of each respective website. As far as addressing the issues, both tackle them in quite articulate fashion, not patronising the reader. However, Latinos United relies to heavily on the togetherness aspect, constantly referring to family and using symbols of America a lot, whereas NumbersUSA focusses on just that, number statistics and the bare facts, but obviously with an agenda. They have also been criticised by the Southern Poverty Law Centre, calling the group nativist, however they also stated there was no evidence of this.