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New immigration law sets dangerous precedent

Common Sense Essays, Opinion on July 5th, 2009 Comments Off

By Chris Burbank
As you begin the experience of the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C., one of the first images you encounter is a photo of a Nazi soldier standing with a German police officer. Conspicuously, the identical theme exists at Yad VaShem, Israel’s memorial to Holocaust victims.
The Nazi propaganda and hatred effort did not [...]

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Weekly Immigration Wire: Marching Toward Justice!

Featured on January 24th, 2009 Comments Off

I’VE BEEN FOLLOWING NEWS FROM MEXICO for a few years now, and as I’m sure you know, most US media ignores Mexico, and to our detriment. This is baffling to me because our cultures, our land, our labor, and our peoples are so intertwined as to be two parts of one whole. It is easy [...]

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Change Immigrants and Labor Can Believe In

Politics on December 2nd, 2008 Comments Off

Since 2001 the Bush administration has deported more than a million people–including 349,041 individuals in the fiscal year ending just prior to the election. It has resurrected the discredited community sweeps and factory raids of earlier eras, and started sending waves of migrants to privately run jails for crimes like inventing a Social Security number [...]

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