Posted on 05/09/2007 10:02:21 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
It is important to take a stand at this moment in history, not just against a war that was based on lies about "weapons of mass destruction" that were never found, but also against the war of lies that is being waged against our immigrant communities all across this country. This unjust war is continuing to blame the economic problems on undocumented immigrants while the multinational corporations, such as Exxon, are bringing in $40 billion in profits, the largest profit by a corporation in history.
This is an unjust war where workers aren't reaping the rewards of their labor and when the real reasons for why wages are trailing productivity gains has little to do with the growth of the immigrant population, but more to do with the corporate profits that are taking the lion's share of economic growth.
This is an unjust war that, since 1996, has deported over one million of our immigrants, resulting in divided families and children being taken away, often from the only place that they have known their entire lives.
This is an unjust war where our immigrant communities are not only being maligned and and killed at home, but also being used as cannon fodder and killed abroad.
In this unjust war, it is important to remember the name of Marine Lance Cpl. Jose Gutierrez who came to the United States from Guatemala as an undocumented teenager, whose parents died in the Guatemalan civil war, who lived on the streets as an orphan before coming to the United States, who attended high school and community college, and joined the Marines in hopes of obtaining funds to further his education and to help his sister in Guatemala. Jose Gutierrez was the first U.S. serviceman killed in combat in Iraq on March 21, 2003. In this unjust war, it is important to remember Diego Rincon, who came to the United States from Colombia and helped his father clean carpets before he joined the Army. He was killed during a suicide bombing attack in Iraq, right after Jose Gutierrez, in March 2003, and received his citizenship posthumously at the age of 19.
In this unjust war, according to the Pentagon, more than 100 immigrant soldiers have died in combat while many more continue to enlist. The most recent data shows that 69,300 foreign-born men and women are serving in the U.S. armed forces, of which 43 percent (or 29,800) are not U.S. citizens. Many of these immigrant soldiers joined the military as a result of recruiter promises that they would one day receive a good job, a quality college education, and a better life. As in the past, those immigrants who do happen to make it alive and come home, face another war - the enforcement war being waged against our immigrant communities.
As more and more of the American people become aware of the lies behind the war in Iraq, it is "just" to support all efforts aimed at bringing our troops home. At the same time, let us work to bring them back to a society that ensures a quality of life for all a quality of education for all, a quality of health and employment for all, a quality of human rights for all, with peace and justice for all.
Let us support bringing the troops home, but to a society that, rather than advancing an increase in narrow immigration enforcement policies (that are resulting in racial profiling), will allow immigrant workers the right to work here and receive legalization rights that will lead to permanent residency and citizenship. This means genuine legalization proposals that will adjust the status for all undocumented immigrants and that will treat them as full human beings with full citizenship and labor law protections.
In helping to end the war abroad, we will hopefully also help in ending the war at home.
“This unjust war is continuing to blame the economic problems on undocumented immigrants while the multinational corporations, such as Exxon, are bringing in $40 billion in profits, the largest profit by a corporation in history.”
Silly argument, Exxon is huge and their profit percentage was actually a little low. They just deal in very large quantity. But they create jobs and pay taxes. So that is $40 billion after taxes right?
How much did the “undocumented” immigrants pay? How many jobs did they create for Americans?
Apparently a basic understanding of economics is not a requirement to be a professor of sociology.
This is an unjust war where workers aren't reaping the rewards of their labor and when the real reasons for why wages are trailing productivity gains has little to do with the growth of the immigrant population, but more to do with the corporate profits that are taking the lion's share of economic growth
The reward of labor is wages, while profit is the reward for enterpreurship and risk-taking.
I hate reading material like this. It's so full of falsehoods that it offends even the most modest definition of political discourse.
Most frustrating is that these tactics seem to be more commonplace.
"All we want are the facts, ma'am" - Joe Friday
Preferably, Styx.
Jose A is now Jose B. Who let him in this country anyway?
Everybody sing...
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