Summary of The Latino Threat, Leo R. Chavez critically investigates the media stories about and the recent experiences of immigrants to show how prejudices and stereotypes have been used to describe the immigrant population and to define what it means to be an American. In this book Chavez discuss the assumptions of the basic tenets, offering facts to counter the many fictions about the "Latino threat." With new discussion about anchor babies, the dream Act, and recent anti-immigrant legislation in Arizona and other states. Which consists of a number of taken for granted and often repeated assumptions about Latinos, such as that Latinos do not want to speak English that Latinos do not want to integrate socially and culturally into the larger
