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IMMIGRANTS: WHAT'S TO BE DONE?

Forest Hills, NY

While I appreciate your positive coverage of the emerging immigration movement, "Immigrants & Us" [April 24] concerned me deeply, both in its tone and intimation. That progressives need to be convinced to join this fight, one that seems to jibe with their values and agenda, is more than a little unsettling. That they have to be coerced or wooed toward it, apparently against their presumed better judgment, fills my throat with bile. If in their hearts US progressives stand against "illegal" immigration for the same or similar wrongheaded, misinformed or racist reasons that many other Americans do, then they can take their strategic false alliances and shove 'em. The immigration movement has more than enough passion and will to supplant such insincerity and prejudice.

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