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- Subject: Start Relief with Amnesty for Refugees/WW
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- Via The NY Transfer News Service ~ All the News that Doesn't Fit
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- START RELIEF WITH AMNESTY
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- For the thousands of Central American, Haitian and other
- Caribbean immigrants left homeless by Hurricane Andrew, the
- response of the U.S. government has been both heartless and
- intimidating. For starters, there has been no attempt to provide
- the undocumented with adequate bilingual interpreters. Many have
- little idea of what relief, meager as it may be, is available.
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- What is most visible to them, however, is a large presence of
- U.S. Border Patrol agents, local police and the U.S. Army.
- Helicopter overflights are an almost daily occurrence. Jack
- Leonard, who works with a community in south Florida of 1,200
- Maya Indians from Guatemala, said, "The helicopters scare the
- hell out of the people, who associate them with strafing. And
- nobody will go to the tent cities because of the Army there. The
- army in Guatemala razed their homes and moved them into camps."
- (Sept. 5 Associated Press)
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- That the U.S. has backed the murderous Guatemalan military is
- undoubtedly also on the minds of Guatemalan immigrants.
-
- The Immigration and Naturalization Service has stated that all
- the Army and patrols want to do is provide food and water to
- those in need, including undocumented workers. U.S. Attorney
- General William Barr has said that any immigrants "would not be
- detained."
-
- But if the U.S. government were really serious about that claim,
- they could start with a very simple and clear declaration: It is
- hereby now illegal to arrest, harass or deport any undocumented
- worker. Furthermore, there is now full amnesty and full rights
- for all immigrant workers, papers or not.
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- To show their good faith, the U.S. should then remove all border
- agents from Florida and replace them with thousands of
- multi-lingual community organizers to get the immigrant workers
- back on their feet.
-
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- St., New York, NY 10010; "workers@igc.apc.org".)
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