What's great now about the action in the streets is that immigrant communities are finally emerging from these exploited shadows, discovering in their own solidarity a newfound voice where once they were ignored. The dynamic of the current moment speaks to the potential of this new civil rights movement to spill over into a broader activism in defense of labor rights. That's good news for everyone who works for a living in the United States.
There is no' immigrant problem' Our problem it is.
The problem is Bush. He desperately uses slander.
1. The 11.5 million of undocumented aliens? Where does it come from? Who counted? How? Why? What was the method?
No answers to that and never will be. Pure slander.
2. We have to do something with' them'. Why? The laws od any land have no such thing as ' them'. All laws are targeting individuals, not groups. Any ' group law' is Nazism.
3. Our border 'needs securuty'. Why? Why now? Why it did not need any 'security' before? Why only southern border? If our borders are insecure, who is the bad guy? No answer. It never will be.
4. The real reason for all that crap: Our administration declared war on the citizens. It now secures the borders so that there is no escape. It is preparing for the slaughter.
And yes, the border will be secure. Against us that is.
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Mark Sashine (46 articles, 19 quicklinks, 235 diaries, 3358 comments)
on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 1:21:16 PM
There is a simple solution. Go after the corporations that employ illegal immigrants and prosecute them under existing law. This would also force them to start employing American people at a living wage. Instead of deploying 6000 already overstretched National Guard troops to the border to run down illegal would-be employees, why not employ 6000 cops/spooks from Negronte's monstrously overstaffed department to run down the illegal employers? Why not? We know why not. Because Bushco is funded by those same corporations. Round and round we go.
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Mark Lloyd (12 articles, 50 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 15 comments)
on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 2:36:04 PM
