The Border War Comes Home (eye-opener)

http://www.counterpunch.com/


The Border War Comes Home
Our Lives are on the Line


He looked squarely into my eyes. "So, you see what's coming," he said.

I was speaking with one of the core leaders of the movement for migrant's rights, and had laid before him a sketch of a plan of resistance for the nation's barrios, for the protection of people from the mass raids and mass deportations that will result from new anti-migrant legislation being birthed in Washington.

"This is the calm before the storm; they're going to make it tough," Professor Armando Navarro had told LA's La Opinion. "They're talking about raids, deportations. In every barrio we have to organize migrant defense committees, and get ready for civil disobedience."

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Fittingly, the Bush administration has flatly stated its intent to make "enforcement" the cutting edge of its new approach to migrants, and to prove the point it recently initiated the largest single mass arrest of migrants in US history, and put a severe new focus on penalizing employers, as well.

Bush has already deported more people than any other president in U.S. history.

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And, in apparent defiance of the Posse Comitatus Act ­ which forbids the use of military troops within US borders - the House recently passed legislation that, according to the Pentagon, "gives authority to the Defense Department to assign military members to assist Homeland Security organizations in preventing the entry of terrorists, drug traffickers and illegal aliens into the United States"

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Black people of that era laid their lives on the line for their freedom. We can do no less.

Let us put the slogan to the test: ¡Un Pueblo Unido Jamás Será Vencido!

Si, se puede.

(this is a very long article)
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Very Powerful First they came for the brown people, then they came for the dissidents.

The Bushco Inc. plan relies on a compliant low-wage workforce to keep consistent down-pressure on wages in general. Who better to exploit than "illegals" who know they have not a legal leg to stand on, little in the way of workers rights because the surplus labor pool will have someone else do the job if they threaten not to nor any civil rights recourse. This is a corporate plutocrats wetdream, too good to be true to mess with.

Wait and see, very little change will come of the bushie border scheme during his term, more redmeat to his shrinking base.