Sinister: Immigration

[Birjinder Anant]

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  

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