Latino immigration

http://www.fairus.org/site/PageNavigator/about/
This organisation is the Federation of Immigration Reform. They are a group set up by ‘concerned citizens’ who want to bring immigration to what they feel is a more reasonable level and to have strong immigration laws in order to remove illegal aliens altogether. There is an article commenting on Obama’s State of the Union speech where they feel that in order to get Americans back to work it is necessary to remove all illegal aliens to free up jobs. There is a strong feeling of wanting to keep America for the Americans but no discussion of the effects to the economy or the diversity of the nation.
http://www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3507096.html
This is an article on a Stanford University website which comments on the importance of the Latino population in the US. It makes an interesting point that a lot of Americans know little or nothing about the history of these people but that they make up such a large proportion of the population. The article mentions that generally Latinos are hard working and don’t find it difficult to find work which is different to the view given in the Huntington article we discussed in the seminar.