Friday, April 28, 2006
Classic Recipe
"As of 2001, estimates of the worldwide number of migrants ranged from 150 to 250 million. The worldwide number of refugees was estimated at 35 million." http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/in-us.htm
"The true function of restrictionist policies is to depress wage levels, by creating a 'gray market' in undocumented (“illegal”) workers who cannot risk demanding higher wages — or protesting abusive or illegal working conditions." http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/roots.htm
"The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (usually known as “welfare reform”) excluded even legally documented immigrants from most public benefits."
http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/law-policy.htm
"As long as deepening global warfare is promoted by U.S. policy elites and military profiteers, more and more refugee populations will be created." http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/building-alliances.htm
"When white racism is depicted, most often it is attributed to working class or poor whites. Such images obscure the complex social, cultural, and economic realities of institutional racism and white privilege in the United States."
http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/racial-ethnic.htm
"The overt racism of hate groups and the more subtle bigotry of mainstream anti-immigrant organizations both serve to divide people who might otherwise find common ground in social struggles for justice. While they may attract followers with the power of their rhetoric, such anti-immigrant movements do nothing to address the root causes of suffering — the economic, social, and political structures that maintain an unjust and increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege. Instead, they substitute a lethal combination of resentment, scapegoating, and hatred — the classic recipe for fascism."
http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/anti-immigrant.htm
"The true function of restrictionist policies is to depress wage levels, by creating a 'gray market' in undocumented (“illegal”) workers who cannot risk demanding higher wages — or protesting abusive or illegal working conditions." http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/roots.htm
"The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (usually known as “welfare reform”) excluded even legally documented immigrants from most public benefits."
http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/law-policy.htm
"As long as deepening global warfare is promoted by U.S. policy elites and military profiteers, more and more refugee populations will be created." http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/building-alliances.htm
"When white racism is depicted, most often it is attributed to working class or poor whites. Such images obscure the complex social, cultural, and economic realities of institutional racism and white privilege in the United States."
http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/racial-ethnic.htm
"The overt racism of hate groups and the more subtle bigotry of mainstream anti-immigrant organizations both serve to divide people who might otherwise find common ground in social struggles for justice. While they may attract followers with the power of their rhetoric, such anti-immigrant movements do nothing to address the root causes of suffering — the economic, social, and political structures that maintain an unjust and increasingly unequal distribution of wealth, power, and privilege. Instead, they substitute a lethal combination of resentment, scapegoating, and hatred — the classic recipe for fascism."
http://www.afsc.org/immigrants-rights/learn/anti-immigrant.htm
