"Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist."

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Source : Aviva Chomsky (2007). “They Take Our Jobs!: And 20 Other Myths about Immigration”, p.184, Beacon Press

Aviva Chomsky

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“We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back.”
“A person soon learns how little he knows when a child begins to ask questions.”
“I was sort of caught up in my own web of illusion.”

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“I want to get married, but I'm always tortured in relationships.”
“Despite reforms in ***** control, serious problems still occur in and out of baseball.”
“We and the world, my children, will always be at war. Retreat is impossible. Arm yourselves.”

Source : Leif Enger (2001). “Peace Like a River”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press
“God asks little, but He gives much.”
“It is looking for the joys that come in small, precious packages and making the most of them, knowing that big packages of joy are few and far between.”

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