What Constitutes A Truly Progressive Immigration Reform?
Duke from Migra Matters–a co-founder of The Sanctuary (2009 Best Blog in Ethnic Media, New America Media)–unveils a broad set of principles that should serve as a guide to progressives who favor immigration reform. This was published at Alternet and front-paged at Daily Kos, not to mention other promigrant sites. 25 KEY PRINCIPLES TO MEANINGFUL REFORM 1. End policies that rely only on enforcement and deterrence as the sole means of regulating migration. 2. Address the root causes of immigration, and change US policy so that it doesn’t foster and produce conditions that force hundreds of thousands of people each year to leave their countries of origin in order to simply survive. 3. Tie all current and future trade, military, and foreign aid agreements to not only worker protections both here and abroad, but also to their ability to foster economic progress and social justice for the working class and poor in sender nations. 4. Formulate a reasonable, humane, fair and practical method fo
