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There was some kind of confrontation between immigration advocates and the Minutemen at Columbia University when their leader Jim Gilchrist was invited to speak by the Republican club. Here’s Karina Garcia the leader of a Columbia group of activists:

KARINA GARCIA: This isn’t an organization with ideas. These are people with guns. These are people with rifles, people that stand on the border in the middle of the desert, and they declare open hunting season on defenseless immigrant families. This isn’t a battle of ideas. Their immigration policy — and I can quote their members — is it should be it legal to shoot illegals, ‘just shoot them on sight, that’s my immigration policy.’ That’s their connections with the National Alliance [a neo-Nazi/KKK affiliated group], their connections with people like Barbara Coe who have said that Latinos and Central Americans, they’re a bunch of savages.

I think immigration advocates and labor leaders need to get together and talk about how they can raise living standards in Mexico to remove the downward pressure on wages. Meanwhile we live in a fascist friendly incubator.
-MAB

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