"Si se puede!" Yes we can. They marched by the hundreds of thousands in Los Angeles, by the tens of thousands in Milwaukee, in Phoenix, in New York. Across the country, Hispanics dramatically entered what has been an increasingly ugly debate about immigration in this country.
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When employers brought slaves to America, few objected as long as they were prepared to work without wages and without rights. When they began to demand equal rights, all hell broke loose. No one minded when Mexican farm workers came to pick the crops, do the lawns, clean the houses. When they started to demand the right to citizenship, to vote, to organize -- the furor started. ...
Wage war on poverty, not immigrants BY JESSE JACKSON
OPINION REPORTS ON IMMIGRATION :
|| La marcha en Los Angeles CA by Tony Alcazar
|| Truth About Immigrants
by Enrique
|| More Sensitivity and Less Prejudice Christoph Butterwegge
|| ANOTHER FACE TO THE IMMIGRATION DISCUSSION by Anna Kunkin
|| Immigration Harms Black America by PM
|| Full Citizenship Rights for All Immigrants!
by Spartacist
|| Blacks and immigrants call for unity! by Nunu Kidane
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I*L*L*E*G*A*L Spells Apartheid
by Roberto Rodriguez
When the late Alabama Governor George Wallace - surrounded by armed guards - stood on the steps of the University of Alabama to prevent a young Black woman from entering the University of Alabama, he declared, "Segregation today, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever!”
He also inspired a man who would later stand at the US / Mexican border, armed to the teeth, to prevent other brown skinned people from entering someplace he didn’t want to them to enter.
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Full report:
The Ghost of George Wallace: Immigration and White Racism
by Juan Santos
