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“Si se puede!”
Steven Donahue immerses himself in the immigrant
Communities of South Florida on May Day, 2007 and the Immigrant
Experience in Homestead, Florida and draws some pointed conclusions
about the debate over immigration to America.
Krome Avenue
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cornucopia would wither without Mexican and Guatemalan
migrant workers, who indeed are a long way from home, and
pay a personal price in their harvesting abroad. However,
even after surviving the wrath of Hurricane Andrew a decade
ago, an anti-immigration storm pelting undocumented workers
is now knelling the bitterest of tolls.
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the burning sun completed its arc from Atlantic to the Gulf
of Mexico: dusk signaling work in the fields done.
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Have Corazon
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States. The aim of the gathering was to provide information
and focus on arresting the motion of the dreadful crackdown
on undocumented workers.
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particularly voting, there is little political pressure
from this massive demographic. Still, they feel that by
appealing to America’s heart and sense of justice this act
will wear away the hardened legislative stones.
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poignant and courageous DVD with people (some in the
audience) going on the record about their immigration
experiences.
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• A tow-haired, sun-wizened person remarks,
morning.”
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Rough Road
Immigration to the United States is the single most
important national issue of our era. Yet, from Homestead,
Florida to Farmers Ranch, Texas to Marshalltown, Iowa there
are moves afoot to have local police be enforcers of
federal immigration laws, and even have property owners
verify documentation status before renting. Instead of the
Statue of Liberty or Welcome Wagons, cruel posses are
formed to hunt down America’s poorest and most vulnerable.
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however many millions of undocumented workers we have here—
they are working—and are already part of America. On May 2,
Geraldo Rivera and Sean Hannity debated by over-shouting
one another. However, as to the fundamentals, there is no
debate because undocumented foreigners want documents too.
Only In America
The new immigration flow is here to stay. It is part
of a worldwide phenomenon of 200 million migrants working
away from home. Still, only in America, do we have the
opportunity, and immigrants have the chance to jump into
the melting pot. America has always brought in new blood,
in most cases because “There ain’t no mountain high
enough,” nor border wall towering enough to stop the human
flow to greener pastures of hope, freedom, and opportunity.
It is the heart, sinew, and marrow of the America promise,
and inconceivably un-American that politicians would
deliberately create an underclass, unprotected by the
fundamental rights we all thrive upon.
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