immigration policies that the u.s. followed _before_ 1882 (the date of the Chinese exclusion act). Open doors, open citizenship, no questions asked.
This will increasingly come to define what we mean by _left_. In the future this demand will be what Out Now was in the late 60s and Freedom Now in the early '60s. The core of left organizing.
[WS:] I have nothing but praise for the open door policy, but I am afraid that at this junction of time it is mainly the Wall-Street types and libertarians who espouse it. Most of the traditional "target populations" of the left - blue collar, low-income, minorities, unemployed etc. - are deeply anti-immigrant and xenophobic - I am afraid.
To give you an example - not long ago I was involved in a project to organize a work center for Latino migrant laborers in Baltimore. The opposition came from Black housing project dwellers - and this was definitely the worst racist and xenophobic tripe I've experienced in my entire life.
Wojtek