Agency Report: Americans for Immigration Control

 

A.  Title of agency or organization? Americans for Immigration Control (AIC)                

B.  Where is home base (city/state/country)? Monterey, Virginia

C.  Date founded? 1983

D.  Names of key spokespersons/officers: Robert Goldsborough (President) and John Vinson (Editor).

E.  What/who is key constituency or audience? Conservative/right-wing white audience

F.  What are the agency’s main activities? Trying to “educate” the public by producing a newsletter, deploying their staff for radio talk shows and television programs, and being a one-stop shop for people to look up how their politicians are voting (in relation to immigration) and immigration-related bills through an email program and their website.

G.  Mission statement? “AIC is an American non-partisan grassroots activist organization with more than a quarter of a million members - citizens of all races, creeds, and colors.
AIC, founded in 1983, is about stopping the millions of illegal aliens who sneak across our border from Mexico every year.
AIC is about deporting those illegal aliens already in the U.S.
AIC is about opposing all amnesties & guest worker legislation.
AIC is about strictly enforcing the current immigration laws and increasing penalties for those who knowingly transport, recruit, solicit, or hire illegal aliens.
AIC is about demanding that our federal government immediately use maximum manpower and support equipment to secure our nation from terrorists, drug smugglers, and illegals.
AIC is about reducing annual legal immigration to numbers which can be readily assimilated.
AIC is about actively promoting grassroots influence on legislators by means of letters, petitions, and postcard campaigns to promote secure border control.
AIC is about educating motivating and activating citizens with our newsletter Immigration Watch.
AIC is about our staff members who appear as guests on radio talk shows and TV programs to help alert the nation to the immigration crisis.
AIC is about encouraging all concerned citizens to join our efforts to secure America's borders.
Join AIC as we work to save America!”

H. What are the key im/migration issues of concern to this agency? The key immigration issues for this agency is the US/Mexico border: the agency fears that Mexicans want to take over the US Southwest, and they do not like the guest worker program; they actually want a moratorium on immigration.       

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.? The AIC bases its information off of polling done by an organization called Zogby International and other organizations who think like they do (i.e. Middle American News).

J.  Any publications? (what types, sample titles; if online, give links) The AIC produces a newsletter who’s articles are published in other publications such as Immigration Watch; links to NumbersUSA.com to search through detailed profiles of local and national politicians vote in terms of immigration; they produce and sell videos featuring titles such as “Boarder out of Control: Immigration or Colonization?”, and promote books such as “Immigration and the Public Health Crisis.” (http://www.immigrationcontrol.com/videos.htm,http://www.immigrationcontrol.com/publications.htm,http://www.immigrationcontrol.com/newsletter.htm,http://profiles.numbersusa.com/)

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! An article I found from the Arizona Republic, was written January 1, 2005, (Hawley), about the booklet that Mexico officials published to help migrants cross the boarder. In it, the AIC is quoted saying “It really looks like the Mexican government is encouraging illegal immigration. It shows the contempt that the Mexican government has for our laws."

L.  Any other issues of interest about the agency? Not really.

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) They are completely anti-immigration.

N.  Web site? Give URL http://www.immigrationcontrol.com/index.htm