Howard Zinn on Immigration

The passing of historian Howard Zinn several days ago was indeed sad. Here is a link to a recent interview of Howard Zinn by our friend Wajahat Ali. I’m am also reminded of these words many years ago by Howard Zinn when he was asked about immigration policy:

“If you don’t have a vision, for instance, of a world without national boundaries, you are not in a position to really evaluate very specific things, like should Congress pass this immigration law, or should we pass that immigration law, should we restrict immigration this much or immigration that much. But if you have that vision of the kind of world that you want, then it becomes clear what your attitude has to be towards immigration, which is people should be able to move: there shouldn’t be such a thing as a foreigner, an alien, an immigrant.” Here is the link to that interview.

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