LOS ANGELES COUNTY : New Organization Battles Bias Against Immigrants
Latino elected officials in Los Angeles County announced the formation Tuesday of a group called PRIDE (Proponents for Responsible Immigration Debate and Education) to fight “immigrant-bashing” and raise the level and tone of the immigration debate.
The group is expected to become the main adversary of another group with an acronym--FAIR (the Federation for American Immigration Reform), which has advocated limiting legal immigration and cutting off public services to illegal immigrants.
Among its first tasks, the new group--whose members include the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and immigrant rights groups--has asked for a meeting with Gov. Pete Wilson. The group opposes Wilson’s proposal to deny citizenship to U.S.-born children of illegal immigrants.
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