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  The Fire Inside
 Issue 30 - Spring/Summer 2005

< Dedication
 
< Compañeras adentro — compartiendo historias
 
< Compañeras inside — sharing stories
 
< Immigrants’ Rights
 
< Post Prison Detention
 
< Inmigrantes: Encerrados Adentro y Afuera
 
< Immigrants: Locked In / Locked Out
 
< Middle Eastern and Muslim immigrants targeted – two 16 year old girls detained for six weeks
 
< 11 year old girl jailed in Fresno!
 
< Aliens?
 
< Introduction
 
< Projecto Compañeras
 
< Compañeras project
 
< Family visiting day
 
< So Address Me As Such
 
< Dictionaries to Women in Prison
 
< Parole Beat
 
< Anti-ribbon cutting ceremonies for Delano II
 
< Health care hard to find
 
< CCWP honors 10 years of work with women prisoners
 
       

Aliens?

ABC, CCWF

Aliens? Why not human beings? What a term Americans use when it comes to hard working immigrants who are only looking for an opportunity to better themselves! Americans, don’t judge all “aliens” as drug dealers or some kind of monsters.

What about the undocumented workers working in sweat shops manufacturing the beautiful garments or shoes that Americans pay more for than any one of these same workers can make in one week? How about the poor women, men and kids who pick fruit and vegetables, all the goods that other Americans enjoy, not knowing how much undocumented farm workers have sacrificed and in what conditions they live? The small, shared sleeping spaces, and the families they left behind; the low pay in exchange for not being reported to Immigration.

The USA is a country built by immigrants. Why only target Spanish speaking immigrants? No one should be denied basic human rights.

Last updated September 27, 2005 05:07 PM


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