More Reviews of the Politics of Immigration

Ammunition for Immigration Activists
by Marty Goodman, Socialist Action
March 2008

This book is the stuff of hard-core immigration activists. It’s pro-immigrant rights, no apologies. Their side was in the streets in May 2006, when millions of immigrants and their supporters demonstrated for citizenship rights, an end to raids and deportations.

Written by two veteran New York City activists who have spent years on the frontlines of immigration issues, the book takes on today’s racist myths one by one. You want the facts? Here they are.

Moreover, this book is a terrific primer for people who are just confused by immigrant bashing politicians in both parties and need to know more. Much of the information presented in the book’s 141 pages has been available before, but never in such a concise, comprehensive form. [...]

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http://www.socialistaction.org/goodman16.htm

Myths and facts on immigration
By Raquel Vega, Socialist Worker
February 22, 2008, Issue 663

IN THE context of increased raids and deportations, more detention centers and further border militarization, Jane Guskin and David Wilson provide readers with a basic political framework to dispel common myths about immigration put forward by the mainstream media in The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers.

Immigration is a topic that has been polarizing through most of U.S. history. This book succeeds in switching the narrow terms of debate from guest-worker programs and mass deportations to an open-borders policy that would allow the free flow of people across borders as the only real solution to the crisis today, where undocumented workers effectively live under second-class status

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http://socialistworker.org/2008/02/22/myths-and-facts-immigration