civil rights

i think we ought to stat thinking of the "illegal immigrant" problem as a straight-up civil rights deal: comparable to the black rights movement of the fifies and sixties. the prejudice, dehumanization, exploitation are as palpable. focus for a moment on the fact that you're dealing with actual human beings. we need immigrant martin luther kings and malcolm xs. or maybe we have them already; we just can't speak their language, and they are subject to deportation.