Bashing Immigrants is Costly

Miguel De La Torre has written an essay about the need to "Focus on the Undocumented Family" that lists the toll that the wave of anti-immigrant legislation is wreaking on the families of undocumented immigrants. Here's a quote:

This violence includes, but is not limited to:

--Rape of Latina women and girls crossing the border. (It is now common practice for them to start taking birth control pills months prior to crossing under the assumption that they will be violated.)

--Denial of basic medical services to Hispanics, resulting in death.

--Economic abuse of Latino/as in the workplace, preventing the family from simply surviving.

--Separating Hispanic husbands from their wives or Latina/o parents from their children. (This is becoming a common occurrence, and the federal government continue conducting raids at the workplace).

Probably no greater human rights violation is presently occurring within the United States today than the violence being experienced by the undocumented.

Will Prescott focused on the economic costs of anti-immigrant legislation on the "Religious Talk" radio program last Sunday. He interviewed Russell Evans and Kyle Dean of the Economic Impact Group of Edmond Oklahoma. Here's a link to a podcast (27MB MP3) of his interview.