Whenever we discuss the immigration debate, it is important to emphasize that no human being is illegal. This descriptor for a person does not appear in immigration law or, for that matter, in any constitutional documents. The use of this term serves to dehumanize and objectify our fellow human beings. As long as we can cast the other in such language, we need not consider their histories or their dreams, their cultures or their contributions.
Mexicans left to make a better life; villagers mourn their final return
Sixteen-hundred miles from their Mexican home, the four illegal immigrants toiled as brick masons in Greater Cincinnati so their families could survive the poverty of this village.
Like thousands of men before them, they left this dusty place in vans packed shoulder-to-shoulder in a desperate run from poverty to prosperity.
But these four came back in coffins, the victims of unsolved, brutal murders.
OVER the years, I’ve been deeply moved by the people who’ve told me they wished they could feel inspired and hopeful about America the way people did when my father was president. This sense is even more profound today. That is why I am supporting a presidential candidate in the Democratic primaries, Barack Obama.
The first-ever comprehensive analysis of top Bush administration officials’ war-related rhetoric
WASHINGTON, January 23, 2008 — Leading up to the five-year anniversary of the Iraq war, the Center for Public Integrity has released the first analysis of its kind, “Iraq – The War Card: Orchestrated Deception on the Path to War.” This comprehensive examination of top Bush administration officials’ statements over a two-year period shows how top officials galvanized public opinion in the run-up to the March 18, 2003 invasion of Iraq. The project’s chronology provides a framework for examining how the administration’s false statements led the country into the war in Iraq. The results of this analysis question the repeated assertions of Bush administration officials that they were merely the unwitting victims of bad intelligence.
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