Sunday, January 20, 2008

Chapter 11

Interest Groups

What interest groups are based upon immigration?

Some of the most popular immigration based interest groups are: Carecen International (www.freewebs.com/careceninternational/index.html), Federation for American Immigration Reform (fairus.org), Mexican American Political Association (mapa.org), American Immigration Control Foundation (americanimmigrationcontrol.com)

What do these groups do?
Interest groups fight for the platform of immigration they believe in by contacting senators, house represenatatives and the president in order to gain some control in the immigration situation.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/27/AR2006032700684.html


What role do these groups play in politics?

This website provides a mix of the latest news on immigration laws and interest group activity.

http://www.nilc.org/

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