Pro and Anti-Latino Immigration
Pro-Latino
Immigration: The Chelsea Latino Immigrant Committee
An organisation that is pro Latino
immigration to the United States, and seeks to help assimilate Latinos into
American society, is the Chelsea Latino Immigrant Committee (CLIC).
This is a branch off the umbrella
organisation ‘The Chelsea Collaborative’. Founded in 1988, they are dedicated
to helping and improving the lives of Latino immigrants in Chelsea, MA.
According to their website, their main ‘mission’ is to focus on ‘enhancing’ the
economic, social and environmental health of the community and its citizens.
They particularly advocate against exploitation in the workplace and seek to
improve position of Latino immigrants.
Furthermore, they have had significant
achievements that have developed the standard of living for Latino immigrants. Some
of which have included:
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Assimilating over 65% of families in the area into governmental
systems; including schools and healthcare to name a few
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Improving the education of children
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Proving grants and benefits to local citizens, and helping them both to
‘stay in their homes and fight back against predatory loans’
Building
on this, the organisation have also excelled at creating essential programmes
to help Latino immigrants, and to support them in ordinary suburban life. A few
have included:
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The Chelsea Voter Initiative
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The Chelsea Latino Immigrant Committee
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The Chelsea Citywide Tenants Organisation
An
important way to identity how the organisation really has helped Latino
immigrants, is to reflect on its victories within the community. For example:
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Winning thousands of dollars back for work exploitation and violations
for those affected fraudulent crimes, because they were immigrants
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Helping to ensure the community knows their rights as immigrants
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Joined the Attorney’s fair wage campaign
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Links with the Reform Employment Agency Law to (REAL) for protection
for temporary and day labourers.
In
summary, while this organisation and website is a focus group on the Chelsea
are, they really are pro-Latino immigration and emphasise on equal rights. They
may be a smaller organisation in comparison to others, however their
campaigning on behalf of the Latino community has proved to be both influential
and effective.
Anti-Latino
Immigration: The Social Contract Press
Another
website which suggests anti-Latino sentiment is the Social Contract Press
(TSCP). It is a website that has online books and journal articles.
What
suggests that it is anti-Latino immigration is from some of the potentially
racist works that it has published previously. Some of which have included the
reprint of ‘The Camp of the Saints’ (1973) about the end of Western
Civilisation, and also the ‘Turner Diaries’ which hold connotations with white
supremacy.
The
editor John H. Tanton is the publisher for the Social Contract Press, and he is
also the founder of the American Immigration Reform. This was an effort in 1996
to add an anti-immigration plank. He even suggested that “we are the real
Americans”… “not the Hmong, not Latinos, not the Siberian-Americans”.[1]
Therefore,
while many may see the 21st Century as a progressive era, there are
those who do not support the immigration of Latinos, or the assimilation of
them into society.
Sources:
http://www.chelseacollab.org/who-we-are/programs/chelsea-latino-immigrant-committee
http://www.thesocialcontract.com/info/about_the_social_contract.html
https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/intelligence-report/2001/anti-immigration-groups
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