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“When an alien resides with you in your land, you shall not oppress the alien. The alien who resides with you shall be to you as the citizen among you; you shall love the alien as yourself, for you were aliens in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.”
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Literature/research using "economic refugee" term
- American University International Law Review: unprotected in the U.S. by virtue of an inaccurate label
- Change.org: When an Undocumented Immigrant Is an Economic Refugee
- Huffington Post: Surge in Economic Refugees Will Test Community Resources
- MinnPost.com: Americans living abroad for financial survival
- New York Times: American Evangelical Churches Announce New Policy of Sanctuary for Iraqi Refugees
- PDA: Economic Refugees and Big Petroleum
- The Guardian: Casualties of globalism
- Tikkun Daily: Reagan’s Refugees
- UPROOTED: Refugees of the Global Economy
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Project Economic Refugee’s Zeitgeist Corner Archive
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Arizona: Why The Nazi Comparisons
Posted on August 1, 2010 | No CommentsArizona's controversial immigration has raise some questions of its ties to neo-Nazis in America and whether or not it's appropriate to compare the law to Nazi Germany. Are we being too tolerant of racism? -
Two Latino Men Murdered in Arizona
Posted on June 8, 2010 | 1 CommentMore disturbing proof that anti-immigrant rhetoric is resulting in more murders of Latinos. Last weekend, two Latino men were murdered on the Arizona border, coincedentally a day after a pro-SB 1070 "Phoenix Rising" rally where speakers incited audience members to "lock and load". Tragically, one of the men murdered was also found clutching his birth certificate covered in blood. It appears that the two men might have been American citizens and were confused for "illegal aliens." -
Border Patrol Shoots & Kills 14-Year-Old Boy
Posted on June 8, 2010 | 3 CommentsThe boy was killed on Mexican soil by the U.S. border patrol. According to the boy's sister, the boy was not even attempting to cross the border; was a mere bystander that was just hanging out with friends by the river. -
[Video]: New AZ Immigration Law Ties to White Supremacists
Posted on April 28, 2010 | 4 CommentsDownload article as PDF Just in case you still doubt that Arizona’s new authoritarian police law (aka SB 1070) was racially motivated: Via Imagine 2050: The anti-immigrant law just signed... -
"Send them home with a bullet in the head"
Posted on August 12, 2009 | 3 CommentsDownload article as PDF That’s what racist healthcare protesters are shouting now. No, I’m not making it up. See for yourselves: I have been blogging for the last couple of... -
Obama's birth conspiracy theory was concocted by an anti-Semite & circulated by racist extremists
Posted on July 26, 2009 | 4 CommentsDownload article as PDF Southern Poverty Law Center has an action alert on this; see below: Read the full post (607 words, estimated 2:26 mins reading time) -
Hate Speech
Posted on May 10, 2009 | 6 CommentsDownload article as PDF …”the only reason [Luis] is dead is because he was Mexican,” law experts recently argued on CNN. Recently, there was a disturbing verdict on a racially-charged case where an all-white jury... -
Swine Flu
Posted on April 26, 2009 | 6 CommentsDownload article as PDF So apparently we’re under swine flu watch. Yes, it’s all over the news, like the bird flu and the mad cow desease were. They way the... -
CNBC Hoaxes America
Posted on March 3, 2009 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF Now, I don’t know if you have seen this on the news, but the other day a so-called “business reporter” started railing against President Obama’s Housing...