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Kyle already addressed some of the deficiencies in Antonio Olivo’s article in the Chicago Tribune yesterday about the migration blogosphere. Even so, it is always nice to be noticed. The article gives some much-needed exposure to the online manifestation of rising frustration in migrant communities, including Flor Crisostomo and our DREAMers.
In the article, though, there was no hint that Olivo acknowledged any difference between the people trying to stay with their families and work in this country and the people trying to boot them all out. The migrant rights movement is one of the great moral struggles of our time. It implicates a host of issues about how people work and interact in a global community. The NY Times has realized the import of the human rights issues involved and the destruction that is being visited on migrant families. The Times has picked a side, the side of tolerance, compassion, and common sense. I know there’s a difference between an opinion piece and straight reporting. But by covering the story in a “he said/she said” format that the press often reverts to when dealing with controversial political issues, Olivo left the underlying issues almost entirely unanalyzed.
Minutes after word broke about a Nickelodeon TV special on children affected by Immigration raids, messages like "What part of illegal don't you understand!?!" and "Deport them all!" bombarded Web sites and blogs.From then on, the article is all down hill.
Then, in an increasingly common reaction, bloggers from "pro-migrant" sites such as Citizen Orange and The Unapologetic Mexican countered by ridiculing the show's critics.Antonio Olivo - Chicago Tribune (4 June 2008)
It makes the pro-migrant sanctuarysphere sound defeated. It makes William Gheen sound like the commander of a million person army, while we struggle with our last dieing breaths. If people like Gheen really are winning, why do anti-migrant politicians keep losing elections? Why is it that my blogroll has so many pro-migrant blogs? Why is it that Citizen Orange comes out near the top of a google search of "attrition through enforcement"? We're starting to take the web back from nativists like Gheen, and this article doesn't do our fight justice.The Sanctuary has been mentioned before, but if you're coming here via the Chicago Tribune article, please check out this pro-migrant space made up of some of the best voices on the net. The Sanctuary will be a spot free from a lot of the noise an misinformation spread by folks like Gheen at ALIPAC.
C&L has been giving some good pro-migrant link love lately. Keep it coming and check out the video below:
After several of the business leaders complained about the difficulty in obtaining temporary H1B visas for scientists and engineers, something the Senate immigration bill was supposed to address, Mr. McCain expressed regret the measure did not pass, calling it a personal “failure,” as well as one by the federal government.
“Senator Kennedy and I tried very hard to get immigration reform, a comprehensive plan, through the Congress of the United States,” he said. “It is a federal responsibility and because of our failure as a federal obligation, we’re seeing all these various conflicts and problems throughout our nation as different towns, cities, counties, whatever they are, implement different policies and different programs which makes things even worse and even more confusing.”
UPDATE: Crooks and Liars linked to The Sanctuary. That's huge.
The post only consists of six short words, including the title.
Title: Wrong! Wrong! Wrong!,With a toxic anti-migrant online climate I'll take all of support we can get. Needless to say, a link from one of the most prominent blogs on the web is more than significant support. Still I couldn't help but notice all the migrant hate in the comments.
THIS is unacceptable.Perez Hilton (14 May 2008)
With the launch of the A Dream Deferred blog, the world can no longer feign blindness to the suffering of migrants. While most bloggers in what we have dubbed the pro-migrant sanctuarysphere struggle to get hundreds of online viewers, this month tens of thousands have already collided head on with the migrant voice. These "voiceless others" that nativists have beat on for centuries now have a megaphone and they are speaking out loud and clear:
"Terrorism, crime, the economy, health care, and education: we are not to blame for all of the world's problems! Yet, despite being treated as less than human, we still want to help solve them. All we want, is the freedom to do so."
These are the DREAMers, a nickname for the possible beneficiaries of the DREAM Act. But the term DREAMer has come to mean so much more than that. They truly do live their life off of the dream that they will one day be able to contribute to a country that refuses to acknowledge their existence, with some even actively crushing it out. If I were in their position I would have given up long ago. I probably would have drawn inspiration from Marcus Garvey and his "Back to Africa" movement, and left. Instead they stay in the only home they know with the dream that one day, their government will acknowledge their humanity.
