Summary
In New York, low-wage immigrant workers stand on the far bank of the ever expanding income gap to which immigrants who deliver its babies are feeling the squeeze of the Bush administration's draconian policies and aggressive enforcement. Among other things, Solomon discusses countless ways administration has decimated neighborhoods, torn families apart, cavalierly returned asylum-seekers and eroded due process for noncitizens.
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We Are All New Yorkers
Pick a street, any street, in any immigrant neighborhood in New York, and ask residents how they've been faring over the last couple of years under George W. Bush. You'll discover-as the grassroots group Families for Freedom has been finding in its corner-by-corner surveys-that the city's population inhabits two parallel universes: one for citizens, one for everybody else. Certainly low-wage immigrant workers stand on the far bank of the ever expanding income...
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