Tara Widmer said:
but there is *so* much more to this than just bigoted and ignorant Americans...anyway a music mailing list is hardly the place to go into immigration issues
Yeah, but not much more. The immigration legislation of recent years in the US is just political manipulation by leaders in order to gain power...in this case, they're working on people's xenophobia. A proposition in California a few years ago (unfortunately, it passed, but fortunately it's been blocked in court) Prop. 187, gave school teachers and employers the right to report anyone they _suspected_ of being an illegal (*The granting of legal immigrant status is really arbitrary) immigrant...meaning based on looks, which is where it all becomes overtly racist. It was aimed at a fear of Mexican immigration into California. They cleverly masked it as an economic issue, but if you actually looked at the facts, it turned out that illegal immigrants put money into the US, since they have taxes withheld, but cannot file tax returns to get any of it back. The proposition served its purpose though, it helped the governor get re-elected. Anyway, sorry to anyone who was bored by this, but if anyone has any questions, feel free to email me. Long live the music. Oh also, I'm visiting San Diego for 2 weeks, and if anyone knows any good record stores around the area, please email me. I went to Off the Record in Hillcrest...it was nice, but didn't have a lot of what I was looking for. Take care, Birjinder ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Somos todos conejitos felices que tararean . consonancias felices del conejito - no somos? -----------------------------------------------------------------------