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For war and workers? Julie Quiroz-Martinez finds labor unions and grassroots organizers struggling to define immigrant rights post-9/11. (A New Era).
By the time you read this, an estimated 5,000 airport baggage screeners will have lost their jobs. The reason: they were guilty of being immigrants.
Welcome to post-9/11 America, where birth in another country can and will be used against you. While millions of dollars have poured in for victims of the September attack, widows of dishwashers who died in the World Trade Center face life without access to any government benefits. National polls show strong support for identification cards and special surveillance for people with an "Arab" appearance. And while immigrants ship our to Western Asia for combat duty, their relatives back home can't be trusted to work in ...
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