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mmmmm 2A o®o NEWS/Cte Ciarlotte $o92 Thursday, May 4, 2006 African Americans join immigration debate More weigh in on migrants ’ impact Continued from page 1A immigrant rally in Marshall Park, said it is a human li^ts issue. “This is something that we should all be concerned about,” he said. Though the thousands of komigrants who rallied in Charlotte were mostly Hispanic, AUhamisi, who is black, said African Americans should get involved. “I tiiink that we should aU support the children of the earth and we are the children of the earth,” he said. In North Carolina, the immigration issue may seem to be all about Hispanics and Latinos, but it isn’t, said Raquel Lynch of the Latin American Coalition. They are just an easy tai^tbecarxse of the number of illegals cross ing America’s southern bor der. “The immigration system is vfrtually broken and in need of repair,” she said. The Rev Jesse Jackson of the Rainbow PUSH CoaHtion said the immigration move ment is about dignity, but it is being “targeted by divisive and hateful legislation and social policy” “There is an attempt by some to place the issue in a race frame,” Jackson said in a statement. “It must be placed in an economic frame. It is a distortion just to put a Mexican face on Ihe issue. It is a diversion to focus on imdocumented families and not on the source of tension: globalization, government and employer-driven poli cies.” Lynch said that in North Carolina there is a large number of Hispanic immi grants here and it is so new to the state. Accordir^ to some estimates, there are as many as 500,000 in this state. ‘We have acknowledge that this is an issue that involves people from Africa, Sum Asia and from aU over the world,” she said. But others say undocu mented workers have a nega tive economic impact on blacks. According to the Center for Immigration Studies, the lowering of wages due to illegal immi grants disproportionately affects African American workers. Mark Kiikorian, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Immigration Studies, said there has been an 8 percent reduction in blue-coUar wages over the last 20 years, the jobs that historically were the key rung on the ladder to middle-class status. “Office cleaning in Los Angeles, rmtil immigration picked up, was dominated by unionized middle-aged black men,” Kiikorian said. Now, he said, that industry is no lor^r unionized, the benefits have disappeai'ed and immi grants dcauinate. “It’s not as simple as saying that an illegal alien shows up and an American loses a job. But the increase in immigra tion means that more work ing aged Americans have stopped lookir^ for jobs.” Throughout U.S. history, African American leaders from Fredrick Douglass to Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois have been critical of immigration and its effect on black workers. “The black elite has only now decided to (support) immigration,” Kiikorian said. “John Lewis (a U.S. House member fiom Georgia) has said that this movement is comparable to the Civil Rights Movement and that’s laughable.” Community activist Ahmad Daniels made similar com parisons at Monday’s rally in Charlotte. And the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights, the nation’s old est dvil and human rights coalition, has criticized legis lation that would enforce deportation of illegal immi grants. “The entire history of the civU rights movement has been based on the recognition that there can be no such thing as second-class Americans,” said chairperson Dorothy Height. ‘Yet for too long, our immigration laws have created a two-tiered society and have perjjetuated racial and ethnic discrimina tion.” First black to command 18th Airborne THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT BRAGG - The chief of staff of U.S. Central Command has been nominat ed to beccane the command ing general of the 18th Airborne Corps and would become the first black to hold the post, the Army said Monday Maj. Gen. Lloyd J. Austin III was nominated by Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to the rank of lieu tenant general and to com mand the corps and Fort Bra^, where the corps is headquartered. Lt. Gen. John R. 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