No Borders and Binaries

There is no doubt that women bear the brunt of the toughest and lowest-paying jobs (not to mention UNPAID housework). From sewing garments in sweltering factories to changing dirty diapers to wiping counters to doing the dishes to serving as “sex slaves” — the overwhelming majority of workers in these occupations are women.

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Disclaimer - I LOVE SAN FRANCISCO
The experiment was a noble one — Instead of complying with federal immigration law, city officials in San Francisco would take on the cost of flying juveniles convicted of drug crimes to their countries. That would prevent federal deportation and criminal proceedings against these youth, giving them a clean slate [...]

I found this written as a letter to the New York Times. Lets put my intellectual disagreement with grand truths and meta narratives aside for the moment.
Truths: (1) The United States cannot support the rest of the world.
(2) One cannot blame the United States for trying to limit the influx of people across its borders.
(3) [...]

Here is a first draft of an article I wrote for the NLG Newsletter today. Feel free to comment and give suggestions on how to make the preaching drivel better.
This year, the May 1 marches for immigration reform were quieter than preceding years probably due to differences over how to resolve the issue of ‘illegal [...]

57,000 years ago, the first human migrant made her/his way out of Africa to colonize Eurasia. The first wave of globalization was thus underway and since then, humans have emerged from the cradle of civilization to travel, explore and settle in different areas of the world sometimes peacefully, and other times, acrimoniously. This country was [...]

Most people seem supportive of the concept of ‘earned citizenship’ - meaning that we must fulfill a set amount of requirements to obtain a green card and an American passport.
The DREAM Act has several teleological components that we must meet in order to qualify for legal residence. These are:

we must have come here before we [...]

The Udall Center for Studies in Public Policy at the University of Arizona has just published a report on the main causes of illegal immigration. Global economic change tops the list, followed by an inadequacy of proper legal for migration and lack of employer sanctions for hiring ‘illegal aliens.’ (See the report here).
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