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> The border is not just a wall. It’s not just a line on a map. It’s not any particular physical location. It’s a power structure, a system of control. The bord
by rexpop 3y ago
> The border is not just a wall. It’s not just a line on a map. It’s not any particular physical location. It’s a power structure, a system of control. The border is everywhere that people live in fear of deportation, everywhere migrants are denied the rights accorded citizens, everywhere human beings are segregated into included and excluded.
— CrimethInc, No Wall They Can Build[0]
0. https://crimethinc.com/books/no-wall-they-can-build https://crimethinc.com/books/no-wall-they-can-build
- pc86 3y agoWhat rights are legal migrants denied that are accorded to citizens?
- robotresearcher 3y agoVoting. Unconditional residence. Green card holders have to spend most of their time in the US or lose their permanent resident status. No time out. Green cards have to be renewed.
- pc86 3y agoGood luck convincing anyone outside of the fringe that non-citizens should have voting rights. I agree with you on the other two, though I certainly see a legitimate purpose in green cards having a renewal process. But you can get a re-entry permit and be outside of the US for up to 2 years and retain your green card status, it doesn't seem particularly onerous.
- robotresearcher 3y agoI wasn't arguing that non-citizens should have these rights, just stating some of the rights that they (we, in my case) don't have.
- genman 3y agoWhile there is certain truth in it, I believe that a man needs certain belonging, certain responsibility. I have witnessed a (state wide) culture without it, it resulted in careless exploitation of natural resources and wide scale pollution and contamination of nature.
- rexpop 3y agoI appreciate your remark. Perhaps you agree that part of what's missing from the worst of immigration (including settler colonialism) is humility and reverence for the land?
- genman 3y agoYes, for sure. * as a side note: I disagree with some false propaganda that tries to portrait Jewish people in Israel as settler colonists - you can't be a colonist on your own land - that would be absurd.
- piloto_ciego 3y agoI belong to the earth, my family and my community… I don’t need an imaginary line to tell me where I belong.
- genman 3y agoAnd yet you are incredibly naive to not understand the possibility that this "your community" can be easily overtaken and destroyed in the borderless world.