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Title: Immigration/marriage; A goodbye (Letters to the editor)
Post by: Natasha on June 19, 2008, 12:57:00 AM
Post by: Natasha on June 19, 2008, 12:57:00 AM
Immigration/marriage; A goodbye
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=18679
6/18/2008
"For example, she accuses "queers who claimed to fight for immigration" of not caring about the special plight of the undocumented. ( Notice her sneering use of claimed; she apparently has in mind all the LGBT people who recently participated in last May's immigration march in Chicago, many for the first time—would it have been better had they all stayed home? ) . She further accuses activists who work for a liberalization of asylum laws of having narrow interests and ignoring the millions unable to seek asylum from the ravages of global capitalism."
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=18679
6/18/2008
"For example, she accuses "queers who claimed to fight for immigration" of not caring about the special plight of the undocumented. ( Notice her sneering use of claimed; she apparently has in mind all the LGBT people who recently participated in last May's immigration march in Chicago, many for the first time—would it have been better had they all stayed home? ) . She further accuses activists who work for a liberalization of asylum laws of having narrow interests and ignoring the millions unable to seek asylum from the ravages of global capitalism."