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Wouldn't you and Mr. Kushner's adversarial energies be better served by
advocating for those you feel are exploited, rather than labeling those
whose opinions differ from yours as bigots?
JHarmon
Cleveland
>From: "Robert Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [Mpls] Illegal Immigrant Drivers Licenses
>Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 15:51:50 -0500
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>To respond to both accusations at the same time made by JHarmon, I'll begin
>with the one about paying taxes. Well, the truth of the matter is that
>illegal immigrants do pay taxes. They pay taxes in the form of income
>taxes (where they don't get returns), they pay sales tax, taxes for rent,
>etc. They just don't get anything for those taxes. Allowing for illegals
>to get drivers licenses just allows them to take advantage of one thing
>that they do pay taxes for.
> As for the reason that housing rights people defending dilapitated
>housing, it occurs for the simple fact that without that housing, there
>would be NOTHING for low income people. It's not as if the state and city
>are building massive amounts of quality low income housing that advocates
>are ignoring out of sheer willfulness, they just see the practical
>situation being a option between bad housing and no housing.
> The same thing is true for illegal immigrants. They're here, and
>they
>are for a large part driving our economy. Not recognizing this just allows
>the gross exploitation of them to continue. A driver's license is just one
>small step towards a life of dignity for such people, the next step would
>be better paying jobs, and education for their children. I feel a greater
>deal of solidarity with the highly exploited, hard working illegal
>immigrants than I do with most people in this country.
>
> Robert Wood green party member/irate foucaldian
> resident of St. Paul, university employee/student
>
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