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

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Two years ago I was in an auto accident with a fellow who sideswiped my car on a snowy Illinois road. He turned out to be from Mexico and was working in the Chicago area with no drivers license or insurance. The police arrested him on the spot. How much better it would have been for both of us if he could have legally acquired a license and insurance. Why not? Is it better that so many people have to live in the shadows of our communities?

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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There is no' immigrant problem' Our problem it is. by Mark Sashine on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 1:21:16 PM
Immigrants are not the enemy by Mark Lloyd on Tuesday, May 16, 2006 at 2:36:04 PM

 
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