Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Latino Immigration

This link is to the website of a pro Immigration in the sense that it is not anti immigration.

http://www.cjd.org/

CJD or Cassa Juan Diego is an organisation based in Houston that publishes the Houston Catholic Worker. CJD is modeled on the Catholic Workers movement, set up in 1980 by Mark and Louise Zwick CJD "...shares the values of the Catholic worker movement..." and also "...shares stories of the immigrants and refugees uprooted by the reality of the global economy."
The organisation is funded by charitable donation, it has various branches such as Homless centres and medical Clinics. CJD cares for, educates and socializes immigrants legal or illegal.

CJD like the Catholic Workers Movement is a Catholic and pacifist to its roots. This website opposes the traditional conservative notion of survival of the fittest. It opposes Sam Huntington's essay on the protection of WASP- White Anglo Saxon Protestant and the traditional culture.

The Website publicises its liberal beliefs and lives by and provides "Hospitality for the Homeless, exiled hungry and forsaken.


WHAT ABOUT CEYOTES?


http://www.aicfoundation.com/

The AICF website is anti Immigration but by way of procedure, thats to say they are in the fight to campaign against illeagal immigration. Victory to reform current laws would mean that all immigrants are legal and that the quota would fill up quickly as a result reaching a legal limit.

Howvever the initial thought i got when i entered the website is that it seems very aggressive, not racist but very Nationalist and Patriotic. E.g. American Eagle, Star Spangled Banner, Revolutionary militia figure on the page. The website isnt directing anger into anti Latino sentiments but at immigration in general, however Mexican immigration is the highest contribution of migration to the America and with the reform of Immigration laws in debate soon, the focus will most likley be Latino immigration.

Also the AICF is a "foundation" created in 1983 three years after CJD. They both share similarities. Both are non profit groups that are donation relient (although AICF openly admits to accepting Gov funding),
both publish articles or books on there issues of concern.

I think this website is disguising itself somewhat as a group for public concern whilst underneath being more extreamist to a certain degree.

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