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Southern Xenophobia

Organization Moves Conference Because of Georgia’s Immigration Law

The American Educational Research Association has moved its 2013 annual meeting from Atlanta to San Francisco because of HB 87, Georgia’s harmful immigration law, which is modeled after Arizona’s SB 1070.

“The relocation from Georgia helps to ensure that AERA members and other Annual Meeting participants have equal access to engage in AERA activities free of…intimidation that could occur under this law,” the organization explains. “HB87 seriously compromises the viability of AERA’s holding a conference where all its members will be welcome.”

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Amanda Peterson Beadle

About Amanda Peterson Beadle

Amanda Peterson Beadle is an editorial assistant at ThinkProgress.org. She received her B.A. in journalism and Spanish from the University of Alabama, where she was editor-in-chief of the campus newspaper The Crimson White and graduated with honors. Before joining ThinkProgress, she worked as a legislative aide in the Maryland House of Delegates. In college, she interned at the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, the Press-Register (Mobile, Alabama), and the Ludington Daily News. She is from Birmingham, Alabama.

 

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  • http://hannah.smith-family.com/ Hannah

    Humans, being mobile organisms, have a natural right to perambulate on their own two feet and to migrate. Which is why I would argue, regardless of how common it is, that the effort to restrict immigration is a violation of human rights and contrary to the U.S. Constitution.  On one level, it violates the equal protection clause since it seeks to prevent the entry of persons who might stay longer and labor to sustain themselves while welcoming people who arrive with lots of money in their pockets.  On another level, declaring migration illegal seeks to criminalize the perfectly good or non-injurious behavior of persons who aren’t even within the jurisdiction of the United States.  In other words, the U.S. is trying to criminalize behavior, which people in other countries might be inclined to engage in.  Talk about being presumptuous.
    Preemptive law is no more just than preemptive war.  If humans have a right to wander, then to exclude them from our territory is to deprive them of a right, of which it is only just to deprive them as punishment for a proven crime (injury to someone else).  All this “protective” rigamarole is just an excuse for imposing restraints and segregating some population so the impulse to control and segregate can be satisfied.
    Making segregation legal does not change the fact that it’s evil. To segregate humans is to treat them like a subspecies, as less than human.  And that’s evil.

  • JustMe

    The arguement is not about the worth of a human being but of an economic adavantage that leaves citizens unable to compete vs. off the grid unethical workers.  The rich are exploiting all workers at this point in our history.
    By simply stopping the government economic incentives to non-citizens would be a good start.
    Too many are suffering in America and neither political side will change this situation.

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