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Immigration Reform: Uniting Blacks and Immigrants

88 Citations2005
D. Bacon
The Black Scholar

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Abstract

YOU LISTEN TO PRESIDENT GEORGE BUSH, the only way Mexicans can avoid the deadly and illegal trip across the US border is to come as guest workers temporary contract laborers for US industry and agriculture. The 8-14 million immigrants already living in the US without visas, he says, must become guest workers themselves if they want to get legal documents. While the president's proposal is the most extreme of those before Congress (and has not yet been formally introduced) , all the other bills that would reform US