Anti-Immigrant Groups Blame Immigrants for BP Oil Spill

Originally posted at Imagine 2050.  Imagine 2050 is project which includes activists, immigrants, artists and students who are invested in a future nation that embraces multiculturalism and tolerance.

Anti-Immigrant Groups Blame Immigrants for BP Oil Spill
June 18, 2010

By Rebecca Poswolsky
www.imagine2050.net

Amidst an environmental crisis in the Gulf of Mexico, anti-immigrant groups in the John Tanton Network see the BP oil spill as an opportunity to – wait for it – blame immigrants.

BP can’t contain the oil spill and the anti-immigrant movement can’t control its tendency to blame immigrants for every bad thing in America. On the ground, people are cleaning up oil, protesting BP, and fighting to protect their communities. Anti-immigrant leaders associated with The John Tanton Network posit a different response all together.

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False ‘Border Security’ Debate is Immigration’s Oil Spill, Obama Will Meet With AZ Governor Brewer

By Jackie Mahendra. Originally posted on the America’s Voice blog.

It’s like a raging oil spill, but without those fancy underwater cameras.

Lack of comprehensive immigration reform has allowed an untenable situation to explode into dangerous platitudes, scapegoating, and solve-nothing politics. It has enabled fearful Republican politicians in the heat of challenging midterm elections to exploit the thorny issue of immigration. Ironically, research shows that if politicians would demonstrate a real plan for federal immigration reform, these same officials would see a major boost in support among the majority of voters, who desperately want illegal immigration solved.

For now, like an out-of-control oil slick, Arizona’s controversial new law is poised to spread in a big way — to two dozen other states in the coming months, in the absence of a federal fix. Unlike an out-of-control leak, however, there is a well-documented solution that the majority of Americans support.

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