Communist Party USA
Immigration has continued to be a top issue in Congress and state legislatures. Republicans have scapegoated immigrants, all while immigrants continue to fuel our economy and rebuild many communities throughout the United States. The recent presidential election has halted some of the vicious hate mongering, but the upcoming 2022 midterm congressional elections will once again bring out the attacks on immigrants and Latinos without addressing the importance of providing legal status to the 11 million undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants, with or without papers, have been subject to reactionary attacks, including efforts to curtail immigration from Latina/o America by creating more border walls and using the desert as a weapon of death. Moreover, undocumented immigrants are subjected to exploitation, repression, and abuse by the Department of Homeland Security, Border Patrol, and ICE. But immigrants and their friends and allies in organized labor and the community continue to fight hard for…
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Immigration myths v. facts: A look behind the anti-immigrant furor