[PLAN's Stateside Dispatch this morning focused on the critical issue of immigration. Our Policy Director, Nathan Newman (a frequent dKos diarist), offered the following thoughts on how progressives can reframe the issue and win the day. To receive future dispatches, sign up today! -- Matt Singer, PLAN]
In the last few weeks, the debate on immigration has heated up.
Even as some state legislators across the country have filed bills to crack down on undocumented immigrants, the Cardinal of Los Angeles called for respecting the human rights of immigrants and the Western Governors united in support of establishing a national guest worker program, variations on which are promoted both by President Bush and by Senators Kennedy and McCain. And the AFL-CIO Executive Council this last week issued a statement arguing that even guest worker programs would just create an undemocratic, two-tiered society -- and that the real solution to immigration was reform of labor laws to end the exploitation, both in the US and overseas, that encourages employer hiring of immigrants in the first place.
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