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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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ThinkProgress Archive
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Attacking DREAM Act, Fox News Betrays American Freedom
Posted on December 11, 2010 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF In a direct assault of America’s freedom of opportunity, here comes Glenn Beck spewing racist rants attacking the DREAM Act, which would give kids that have... -
The Economics of Jailing Economic Refugees
Posted on October 29, 2010 | No CommentsDownload article as PDF [Video]: Keith Olbermann segment on this story: Via ThinkProgress: In September, ThinkProgress published an investigation into the prison industry’s role in helping enact SB1070, the anti-immigrant... -
Communist China & Saudi Arabia Behind Support of Politicians with Anti-Immigrant Views?
Posted on October 5, 2010 | 1 CommentConnection of money being laundered from China and Saudi Arabia to fund anti-immigrant and anti-Latino racist candidates in the United States. -
Calderón & Mexico’s Own Immigration Laws
Posted on May 22, 2010 | No CommentsTwo wrongs do not make a right. For the sake of argument: just because Mexico or any other country might be guilty of having an “inhumane” immigration policy of its own, it does not mean that it is okay for the U.S. to have an even more horrible one. The U.S. is supposed to be better, not worse, than other countries. President Calderón made headlines this week, more than anything for his address to a joint session of U.S. Congress where he asked for the reinstatement of the assault weapons ban and for the rejection of Arizona’s new authoritarian police law. Watch his full address here. -
The Salvation Army’s War on Christmas
Posted on December 14, 2009 | 4 CommentsDownload article as PDF And Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these.” Mark...