The Top 10 Immigrants' Rights Blogs
Thursday April 27, 2006
Category: Immigrants' Rights
With the immigration reform debate centering at times on whether or not we should allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States because they "do work Americans don't want to do," it may be difficult, at times, to remember that we're discussing the fate of over 11 million human beings. President Bush surprised many by expressing this very sentiment at a Monday press conference.
If you're tired of hearing self-serving discussions about how American citizens should treat undocumented immigrants, a good antidote might be to read and bookmark blogs that focus on the real lives of those immigrants--their challenges, their goals, and their rights. In the latest installment of Civil Liberties Blog Central, I've found ten blogs that do exactly that--and also deal with the civil rights concerns of legal immigrants.
While you're here, be sure to check out previous installments in my ongoing Civil Liberties Blog Central series:
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With the immigration reform debate centering at times on whether or not we should allow undocumented immigrants to remain in the United States because they "do work Americans don't want to do," it may be difficult, at times, to remember that we're discussing the fate of over 11 million human beings. President Bush surprised many by expressing this very sentiment at a Monday press conference.
If you're tired of hearing self-serving discussions about how American citizens should treat undocumented immigrants, a good antidote might be to read and bookmark blogs that focus on the real lives of those immigrants--their challenges, their goals, and their rights. In the latest installment of Civil Liberties Blog Central, I've found ten blogs that do exactly that--and also deal with the civil rights concerns of legal immigrants.
While you're here, be sure to check out previous installments in my ongoing Civil Liberties Blog Central series:
- The Top 10 Blogs on the Death Penalty
- The Top 10 Blogs on Feminism and Women's Rights
- The Top 10 Blogs on Transgender, Bisexual, Lesbian, and Gay Rights
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Comments
Tom–There is no “right” to immigrate to the U.S. I also have trouble considering illegal aliens as entitled to “civil rights” because civil rights by definition belong to citizens. Some rights we extend even to visitors, such as freedom of speech, but these might be considered human rights, not civil rights. As for 11 million human beings, the upward estimate may be 20 million, and that’s precisely the issue. We have maybe 20 million people in this country who do not believe in the rule of law EXCEPT when they think they can benefit from it. And what about MY civil rights to have MY voice heard which is diluted by our method of choosing Congresspeople based on population including illegal aliens, not citizenship and by the refusal of this President to enforce the laws he has sworn to uphold? Finally, my Arab ancestors came here legally circa 1900 in spite of the US “racist” policies, as did the Irish, Poles, East Europeans and the like who were also considered undesirable even though white. I’m more than a little tired of hearing racism used as justification for claiming we should give illegal aliens, particularly Hispanics, a pass. “Hispanic” isn’t even a race–it’s an ethnicity, and Hispanics may be of any color.