AGENCY REPORT

AMERICAN PATROL REPORT 

A.      Title of agency or organization?  American Patrol Report

 B.      Where is home base (city/state/country)?  Originally Sherman Oaks, CA, now Cochise AZ

 C.      Date founded?

 D.      Names of key spokespersons/officers  Glenn Spencer

 E.       What/who is key constituency or audience?  American citizens

 F.       What are the agency’s main activities? Reporting on current political stands on illegal immigration, current illegal immigration activity and informing citizens what they can do about illegal immigration.

 G.      Mission statement? (you may quote mission statement if available; use quotation marks!) Their mission statement is basically to respect citizenship, sovereignty and law.

 H.      What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this agency?  Illegal immigration from Mexico is out of control and President Bush has not been firm or very active in taking a stand and

 I.        As best as you can determine, on what evidence/sources/research/community does this agency base its informational statements issued, press releases, reports, etc.? From political actions, such as the President’s State of the Union Address. They also use a lot of articles from various newspapers from around the country to highlight their opinions and thoughts.

 Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online, give links) They have many links: Veterans For
Secure Borders
, Americans for, Mothers Against Illegal Aliens
Legal Immigration
, and so on.

K.      Give at least one citation about this agency from a newspaper article (preferably an Arizona newspaper). Use a citation index to research this e.g., Lexis Nexis, available from the Migration Course Web Page made by the Fletcher Library:  http://library.west.asu.edu/subjects/SOC/soc331.html  Briefly state what the article is about, and provide a quote from the article that includes the agency’s name and gives a good idea of this agency’s perspective on im/migration.  Note: not a quote from agency’s own web site!  This article from the Intelligence Report, “Anti-Immigrant Extremism; Immigration activist shoots up woman's garage” describes how Glenn Spencer shot a neighbor’s garage when he thought he heard intruders.  The article argues that Spencer’s agency is based on hate of illegal immigrants and the American Patrol Report is controversial.

“Though it's been highly controversial in Cochise County, American Border Patrol, the spinoff group Spencer founded, continues its work of "lighting up" the border, videotaping illegal immigrants and broadcasting the images of what Spencer has called a "Mexican invasion" over its Web site.”

L.       Any other issues of interest about the agency? This agency has a link and phone number to report illegal immigrants and it has some great photo’s of what’s going on at the border (Arizona/Mexico) as far as illegal immigrant activity.

M.     Is the agency noticeably pro or con immigration? (You may need to determine this from “reading around” in its position papers, press releases, news reports, etc)  This agency is definitely con illegal immigration but is in favor of legal immigration. 

N.      Web site? Give URL <http://www.americanpatrol.com/index.html>

 

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