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program may not even be necessary, except to repair and<br />

make livable crumbling apartment buildings and public<br />

housing. In many cases, the government can simply seize<br />

empty homes and apartments and move people into them.<br />

And, seeing as the government owns 75 percent of the<br />

country’s mortgages after having taken over Fannie Mae and<br />

Freddie Mac, an indefinite moratorium on foreclosures and<br />

evictions should be <strong>is</strong>sued and terms favorable to workers<br />

and the poor can be determined.<br />

5. Stop the raids and deportations<br />

It <strong>is</strong> an undeniable truth that the people of Latin America,<br />

who make up the largest percentage of immigrant workers,<br />

are the original inhabitants of the Americas. So to label any<br />

Latin American as an “illegal alien” <strong>is</strong> to wipe away thousands<br />

of years of h<strong>is</strong>tory.<br />

We believe that no human being <strong>is</strong> “illegal” except the<br />

imperial<strong>is</strong>ts and that as capital <strong>is</strong> free to flow — interrupting<br />

the livelihoods of people across the globe — people should<br />

be free to travel, especi<strong>all</strong>y to escape conditions imposed<br />

upon them <strong>by</strong> the ravages of imperial<strong>is</strong>t intervention in their<br />

homelands.<br />

We believe that <strong>all</strong> workers, be they from the Caribbean,<br />

Latin America, Africa, Asia or Europe, are driven to the U.S.<br />

ultimately because of imperial<strong>is</strong>m.<br />

We demand that the government cease <strong>all</strong> raids and deportations,<br />

which interrupt lives including the lives of young<br />

people, many of whom were born in the U.S. and are being<br />

separated from their families.<br />

Immigrant workers should not be the scapegoats of the<br />

rich who want to drive down wages for <strong>all</strong> the oppressed and<br />

workers. Th<strong>is</strong> scapegoating <strong>is</strong> rac<strong>is</strong>t in nature and meant to<br />

pit U.S.-born oppressed and workers from foreign-born oppressed<br />

and workers.<br />

84 What <strong>is</strong> Marx<strong>is</strong>m All About

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