It’s way too early to tell whether the United States under President-elect Barack Obama will restore realism, sanity and lawfulness to its immigration system.
If Mr. Obama’s team is confirmed, the country will have a homeland security secretary, Janet Napolitano of Arizona, and a commerce secretary, Bill Richardson of New Mexico, who understand the border region and share a well-informed disdain for foolish, inadequate enforcement schemes like the Bush administration’s border fence.
If you uphold workers’ rights, even for those here illegally, you uphold them for all working Americans. If you ignore and undercut the rights of illegal immigrants, you encourage the exploitation that erodes working conditions and job security everywhere. In a time of economic darkness, the stability and dignity of the work force are especially vital.
| This is why it is so important to reverse the Bush administration’s immigration tactics, which for years have attacked the problem upside down and backward. To appease Republican nativists, it lavished scarce resources solely on hunting down and punishing illegal immigrants. Its campaign of raids, detentions and border fencing was a moral failure. Among other things, it terrorized and broke apart families and led to some gruesome deaths in shoddy prisons. It mocked the American tradition of welcoming and assimilating immigrant workers. |
| Read Full Editorial Here: In a time of economic crisis, it is especially vital to uphold workers’ rights, even for those here illegally. Exploitation erodes working conditions and job security everywhere. |
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References:
1. Republicans on Immigration: The War Within
2. Immigrant Deaths in U.S. Detention ‘Gulags’ Go Unnoticed — In U.S. jails and detention camps, immigrants are dying of gross mis-treatment including medical neglect
3. Immigrants Dying In America’s ‘Detention Gulags’
4. Legionnaires’ Disease — American Legion Pushes Nativist Falsehoods
5. CNN’s Lou Dobbs – The Minister of ‘Propaganda and Enlightenment’
Immigration Hate Crimes Across America!
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