Immigration have been the spotlight for the united states and is be aware if they open door for them to come in legal or illegal will affect policies likely will harm the U.S by getting more criminals from other countries and have to spend more money on enforces immigration and law for other reason. The U.S policies have been a long-term debate on policymaker have to decide whether economic, security and humanitarian will be at risk. Congress haven’t make an agreement to reform immigration based on the policies and issues its depend on how will they will handle the situation.American citizens believe that immigration would be a burdens on “ American taxpayers” so to prevent immigration from coming the united states creating an organization or foundation program or law to push immigration away. We are working on anti-immigration funding to understand how funding works and who funds them? The major anti-immigrant groups in the united states receive huge amount of donation from foundation would be the Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) and NumbersUSA. These fund have benefit to promoted anti-immigrant law. by creating legislation, drafting and demonizing immigrants.
In Who Rules American?, G. William Domhoff uses networks analysis to document the existences of corporate community, and to demonstrate its political activity. He argues that the ability of the corporate rich to make change through their economic power is to be an policy expertise and have access to political which lead them to become the most powerful influences on the federal government. However, “The corporate rich supplement their small amount number by financing and directing a wide variety of nonprofit organization, such as tax-free foundations, think tanks and policy-discussion groups, to aid them in developing policy alternatives that serve their interest”(xii).He said the corporate community network start by creating informal discussions. Then, the policy move forward to the more organized part of the networking. This part is the main focus of a complex network of people and institution that plays an important roles in determine the issues and made up of foundations, think tanks and policy discussion group. The foundation are the main ones who fund the network and only certain of money and interest to involved themselves in funding the program that have a connection on national- level policy. The think tanks and policy-discussion groups both provide their role to improve the corporate communities policies, by using research and refinement as in think tanks or through educating the officials who will approve these policies. These three types of organizations then push the finished policy into the government, often through the government officials to help fund or support them.
Domhoff’s book cannot possible cover the depth of evidences that exist around this topic, so there is always an opportunity for further research. Specifically, this paper will being to examine the anti-immigration to understand how funding works and who funds them?, The Colcom Foundation plays major role in immigration funding. This foundation established in the mid-1990’s, by Cordelia Scaife May, sister of conservative philanthropist Richard Mellon Scaife, they have given millions of dollars to a whole network of anti-immigration groups total in all would be around $500 million. These fund is going toward the CIS, Numbers USA and FAIR. These network have operative well to be the top anti-immigration organization and think tanks in american which include CIS, FAIR and Numbers USA. However, the Colcom foundation is the largest world for anti-immigration sentiment and the other contribute in order to put these fund into work.
The American Immigration Reform (FAIR) MISSION, want to reduce overall immigration to a normal level. They want to reduce legal immigration levels form one million to 300,000 a years over a sustained period will allow American to manage growth,address environmental concerns, and maintain a high quality life. The FAIR program puts their interests of American citizens and future generations ahead of big business and partisan demands. This is an non-political party, public interest organization with a support base comprising nearly 50 private foundations and over 1.9 million diverse members and supporters, FAIR is free of party loyalties and special interest connections. They want to help evaluates policies, seeking out solutions that help reduce the negative impact of uncontrolled immigration on the nation’s security, economy, workforce, education, healthcare and environment.
The Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) is an non-profit tax exempt organization in the United States that self-identifies as an organization seeking to reduce both legal and illegal immigration. They want to provide immigration policymakers, the academic community, news media, and concerned citizens with reliable information about the social, economic, environmental, security, and fiscal consequences of legal and illegal immigration into the United States. Most of the funding come from contributions and grants by private foundations, from contracts with the Census Bureau and Department of Justice, and from donations by individuals, including donations made through the Combined Federal Campaign.
The NumbersUSA is civil forum for Americans of all political and ethnic backgrounds to focus on a single issue, the numerical level of U.S. immigration. They focus on nation’s largest grassroots immigration-reduction organization with more than eight million participants in all 435 congressional districts. The member act to persuade public officials to support immigration policies that protect all Americans, especially the most vulnerable and including the foreign-born from losing wages, individual freedoms, quality of life, and access to nature due to excessive immigration numbers that indiscriminately enlarge the U.S. population, the labor force and government costs.
Domhoff’s combination his analysis using concept from class theory and organizational theory to explains the powerful of the corporate rice in Americans, this not simply fact that most organization are controlled by their leader. The private enterprise system use its ownership class that has great economic resources and the potential for political power, but at the same time its promoted competitions among businesses and the rise of a new corporation. It’s also dealing with ongoing class conflict over wages, profits, work rules, taxes and governments regulation. A lot of nonprofit organizations are sponsored by corporates think tanks and contribute to their class resources for political networking. Therefore the interaction of class and organizational imperatives at the top of all American organization include government institution that lead to class domination in the United States.
US Immigration Reform PAC Spend Cycle Graph
The US Immigration Reform PAC, a political action committee their purpose is to “reduce immigration” and “secure our nation’s borders”, It’s have been increase in contribution for 2012 election cycle. The PAC’s president is Mary Lou Tanton, the spouse of John Tanton, the architect of modern day anti-immigrant movement in the United States. According to the website Open Secrets, which tracks down federal campaign contribution, US immigration Reform PAC’s total receipts for 2012 to date are over $14,500 within the four months to go before election day. While this figure is low, it’s up to ten-fold from the last election cycle, where the PAC get only little over $1500 in total receipts. In the 2012 cycle, US immigration Reform PAC have donated to congress candidates. Open Secrets also lists of individuals donors who given $200 or more to the PAC. In 2012, the donors Sharon Barnes board member of the federation for americans immigration reform(FAIR), was founded by John Tanton. Barnes who has donated $300 was given a title of Tanton’s anti-immigrant journal, The Social Contract. Another contributor of over $200 is John Rohe and his wife have donated a $500 to the PAC for 2012 election cycle. Rohe is the Vice President of the Philanthropy at the Colcom Foundation, an organization that donates millions of dollars to anti-immigrant groups each year. It’s not surprise that the US immigration Reform PAC’s have contribute are The four congressional candidates that the PAC has donated to so far in 2012 are Lou Barletta (R-PA), Paul Broun (R-GA), Steve King (R-IA) and Allen West (R-FL).
