The site I have chosen which presents a positive view on Latin American immiration to the US is http://www.nclr.org/index.php/issues_and_programs/immigration/. I decided to chose this site to analyse after reading the aims of the NCLR organisation. They expalin how the NCLR 'builds on America's identity as a nation of immigrants by promoting fairness in the law and advancing a number of ways to help immigrants fully enter the mainstream of American life.' This drew my attention as it showed the organisation's willingness to comprimise with American society by promoting the full intergration of Latin Americans into American society.
The issues surrounding immigration are addressed by the NCLR through seven catagories. You come to the first of these when you are linked to the immigration section of the sight. The political nature of the section is clear immediately, with references to Obama's view on immigration being made. It is explained how Obama's most recent policy on immigration 'does not grant legal status or work permits' and is 'not an amnesty'. This immediately shows a negative stance away from Obama's treatment of immigraiton. This idea of the importance of 'work permits' is further explored in the section "AgJobs". This section focuses specifically on the way Latino workers in agriculture are treated. This is clear when the NCLR explain how they 'promote fairness and equity for the nation’s farmworkers'.
This section, unlike the political one where they seem more interested in criticising Obama than actively helping the Latin community, shows clear signs of a genuine regard for these people. The level of their desire to change circumstances for Latin American agricultural workers is evident through AgJobs, which is an act which aims to negotiate with agricultural unions. The ideas presented in this section support the arguments they make in the first section, showing how the NCLR are successfully identifying and actively working against the areas they disagree with. This mentality resonates throughout the successive sections.
The Anti Latin american immigration site I have decided to look at is https://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/enforcement/border-control/protecting-our-borders.html. When searching for American Anti-immigration organisations, NumbersUSA were frequently discussed as one of the particularly extreme groups. This immediately drew my attention, and although NumbersUSA doesn't isolate just the Latin American community in its dislike of immigration, I found a page which showed clear evidence anti-Latino immigration, with an interestingly different way of looking at the issues when comparing the site with my previous source.
The section I looked at is named "Protect our Borders", immediately identifying Latin America as a perpetrator. Although the aggressive, proactive nature of the previous source resonates in this NumbersUSA section, the sense of negotiation and comprimise is entirely absent in this site. It is replaced by very demanding, one-dimentional demands. They confidently state 'Recent congressional actions have taken aim at these weak areas, but more still needs to be done', offering their own set of ideas that must be incorporated. These ideas primarily involve further guarding of the border, the increased length of the border and the increased height of the border. This seems to be the only real recent opinion on Latin American immigration, and its lack of vision and substance, unlike the previous source, shows how they have in many ways failed to properly address and offer solutions to the problems of immigration.
One thing that this section does do well is show clear knowledge of the immigration situation itself. Although it doesn't do a particularly good job of giving ideas to solve the problems, the problems themselves are very aware to NumbersUSA, in a sense showing that they are addressing the issues. Facts and figures such as 'The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 authorized the hiring of an additional 10,000 border agents by 2010' do back up their demands, with this particular example being followed by 'has not been fully funded'. This shows how despite their naivety and lack of solutions, the organisation does understand the immgration system and does address the issues.
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