Helping Workers in Hard Times
Editorial, New York Times
February 14, 2009
Immigration hard-liners have wasted no time harnessing their dreams of mass expulsion to the recession. The avalanche of lost jobs and grim national mood cry out for the laying of blame, and restrictionist groups are angrily pointing the finger at illegal immigrants. Workers without papers have already been accused of causing leprosy, crime waves, environmental ruin, global warming and the decline of Western civilization, so tying them to a bad economy seems only natural.
But maybe we should think this through. [...]
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/opinion/15sun1.html?ref=opinion
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