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Palin Biden Debate Fever Causes Blindness to Continued ICE Terrorism

14:19 H | Topics: Money - Pennsylvania - Politics - US Presidential Race 2008

While everyone (myself included) VP debate drinking games, the U.S. federal government and ICE hope that their continued acts of terrorism against immigrant communities fly beneath the radar.

In a week's time, ICE arrested 78 people in Pennsylvania and Delaware. The media is playing up the fact that some of those arrested had criminal records and in an effort to stir up fear, called an emergency meeting in the communities where the arrests happening.

The emergency of immigrant familias?

If you can get passed the whole living in fear thing, there is the matter of the failing economy. While immigrants are getting blamed for the crisis the U.S. finds itself in, little attention is paid to how current immigration policies, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and straight up hate are impacting immigrant communities.

According to the Pew Hispanic Center, the median annual income of non-citizen immigrant households fell 7.3% from 2006 to 2007. So when hateful talking heads point their fingers at the immigrant workforce in this country, they are ignoring the fact that immigrants are feeling the economic squeeze as well and perhaps more so.

Via / Hispanic Tips y The Sussex Countian

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