Border Guards Are Not the Answer Because Immigrants Are Not the Enemy

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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.

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Mark T. Harris is a writer living in Portland, Oregon. He is a featured contributor to "The Flexible Writer," fourth edition, by Susanna Rich (Allyn & Bacon/Longman, 2003). His blog, "Writer's Voice," can be found at www.HarrisMedia.org.

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