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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