ASAs main goal was to "unite immigrant workers with the rest of the working class in the United States who enjoy citizenship" (Gutierrez, 188). CASA was the main organization during the Chicano movement to completely side with Mexican immigrant workers. Along with CASA were other major groups like MAPA (the Mexican American Political Association) and LULAC (the League of United Latin American Citizens). These groups also made startling departures from what was considered the traditional opinion of Mexican American civil rights groups on Mexican immigration, marking "a significant shift in Mexican-American opinion on the Mexican immigration controversy" (Gutierrez, 192). By 1975, groups that did not see eye to eye on numerous other topics had almost all joined the united front on the immigration controversy and had come to a mutual understanding of the relationship between the immigration controversy and the battle for equal rights in the United States. Including a huge uproar against President Jimmy Carters immigration reforms, these groups have continued to support Mexican immigrants and fight for their civil rights as well as the rights of Mexican Americans.Since the Chicano movement in the 1970s helped make the need for help for Mexican immigrants visible, numerous Mexican American civil rights groups have either switched their standing on Mexican immigration or have been founded with the idea that Mexican immigrants are deserving of their civil rights in the United States just as much as their legal citizen counterparts are. Sources like LULAC, MAPA, and CASA are still readily available to this day for Mexican immigrants, as well as hundreds of other groups and associations established with the idea of helping as much as possible. LULAC still takes very supportive stands on all sorts of topics from delayed amnesty cases to guestworker legislation, to the militarization of the United States-Mexican border. There is also the ...
