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From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle)
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: War and "terror in hispanic ghettos"
Message-ID: <96@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Oct-83 14:34:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.96
Posted: Tue Oct  4 14:34:19 1983
Date-Received: Sun, 9-Oct-83 15:57:51 EDT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
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Some people on the net don't believe in a connection between violence
(and a potential U.S. war) in Central America and "terror in hispanic
ghettos in this country", so I thought I would point something out:

The U.S. has a refugee problem.  A l r e a d y  there are significant
numbers of people on the move fleeing violence in Central America (as
it happens, not from Nicaragua as suggested but from other countries
in the area).  Since the fleeing refugees look for food and work,
many of those who can head for the U.S.

Since the U.S. doesn't recognize refugees from anywhere but communist-
controlled countries, the refugees enter and live in this country as
illegal aliens.  Since INS officers can't distinguish one poor Spanish-
speaker from another without a magnifying glass, attempts to get rid
of illegal aliens result in harassment of all sorts of residents of
hispanic ghettos, citizens or non-citizens, political refugees or not.

The worse the violence in Central America gets and the longer it goes
on, the worse the refugee problem and its consequences in this country
will get.  The point is that even those who aren't persuaded on moral
grounds should realize that it is in the U.S.'s interest to move in
the direction of peace in Central America, not war, disruption and
dictatorship.

                                 -- Prentiss Riddle
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