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I will be at the March for America on Sunday, but the 7th Anniversary of the United States invasion of Iraq is on Saturday and that is something that I have marched against. There are a flurry of protests and remembrances planned across the country and a march on Saturday in DC against the ongoing 7 year war in Iraq.

Pero why is neither side talking about where the two issues, immigration and war, intersect? Is this one of the glaring failures of “reform” movements that are single issue and don’t talk about how different policies inside the United States feed each other?

What am I talking about?

While the face of wartime motherhood in the media was Cindy Sheehan but it could have been the mother of Jose E. Ulloa, or the mother of Jesus Alberto Suarez del Solar, or the mother of a young Latino soldier whose funeral bells I could hear from my apartment, Sgt. Alex R. Jimenez. This is not an attempt to disrespect or diminish the work of Cindy Sheehan or the death of her son Casey but rather to point out, that as support for the war waned, efforts to recruit soldiers from low-income communities of color were stepped up. Recruiters targeted schools and subway stations and they still do, promising money in a tough economy and promising legal status in the midst of a broken immigration system.
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