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Meet "Juan Crow"
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Posted June 14, 2008 | 01:12 PM (EST)
Read More: Anti-Immigration Movement Racist Roots, Boubacar Bah, Immigration, Juan Crow, Justeen Mancha, Politics News


The final days of Boubacar Bah's life read like an account of a political prisoner in a gulag.

Bah, 52, was shackled to the floor of the prison's medical unit where he was left to moan and vomit until prison officials moved him to a "disciplinary cell."

He would stay there for more than 13 hours -- alone, unresponsive and foaming at the mouth, the apparent result of a head injury. He would later die in a coma at a hospital.

But as the New York Times account of his death explains, Bah wasn't a political prisoner.

He wasn't a terrorist held at Guantanamo Bay. And he wasn't the kingpin of an international crime syndicate.

Bah was a tailor from Guinea who overstayed his tourist visa in the United States. He was an "illegal."

And he's a casualty of America's new war on immigrants.

In the South, Latinos call it "Juan Crow." Just as Jim Crow laws in the South once ensured that blacks remained "in their place," the hysterical over-reaction to illegal immigration is turning immigrants in second-class citizens.

In a Juan Crow world, human rights are trampled, communities terrorized and families torn apart all in the name of getting tough on "illegals." Anyone who looks or sounds "foreign" is a suspect. Just ask Justeen Mancha. She was getting ready for school one day at her south Georgia home when armed immigration agents barged in, shouting, "Police! Illegals!"

Justeen, who was 15 when this happened, is a U.S. citizen of Mexican descent. She was terrified by the ordeal.

A March 2008 report to the United Nations Human Rights Council stated the obvious when it found that "xenophobia and racism towards migrants in the United States has worsened since 9/11."

Loudmouth bigots on the airwaves are fanning the flames of hate, spreading propaganda and conspiracy theories that often originate in white supremacist organizations and blaming immigrants for everything from leprosy to invasion plans. The number of hate groups in the country is rising rapidly. And pandering politicians across the country have flooded state legislatures with bills designed to isolate, demean, humiliate and impoverish immigrants. No fewer than 18 state Houses of Representatives have passed resolutions opposing the "North American Union," a plan to merge the United States with Mexico and Canada, even though no such plan exists.

It's no wonder nearly two-thirds of Hispanics surveyed by the Pew Hispanic Center last year believe Congress' failure to enact immigration reform has made life more difficult for all Latinos.

America's war on immigrants is claiming victims, and the human toll is rising. Bah's family still has questions about their loved one's death. Justeen Mancha worries that agents might storm her home again. And we, as a nation, are in danger of losing sight of our most fundamental beliefs about human dignity.



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Actually in 2007 over 1162 bills were introduced in 50 states and 244 were pass in 44 states against illegal immigration....I would say this is the American people speaking out and demanding law enforcement.
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Facts are facts...don't muddy the water!!

Come legal and there is no problem. I have Mexican friends and they say there was NEVER this racism or anything UNTIL the ILLEGALS came!

It's no wonder nearly two-thirds of Hispanics surveyed by the Pew Hispanic Center last year believe Congress' failure to enact immigration reform has made life more difficult for all Latinos.

I'm willing to bet that 2/3 of American citizens believe their lives have been made more difficult by illegal immigration.

This is the most disgusting absurd article I have read in a while.

Congress' failure to enact immigration reform has made life more difficult for all Latinos.

This is probably because the 80 % of ALL Americans dont want Immigration Reform.And we are tired of giving illegals a free ride.

And to use this Total B.S. story and comparing themselfs to guantanamo prisoners is outrageous.

Storys like these show you the desperation these people have,Because we Americans are really starting to crack down on the freeloaders.

Keep em on the run America.dont back down for nothing,this is our Country,NOT THIERS

The final days of Boubacar Bah's life read like an account of a political prisoner in a gulag.

Bah, 52, was shackled to the floor of the prison's medical unit where he was left to moan and vomit until prison officials moved him to a "disciplinary cell."

He would stay there for more than 13 hours -- alone, unresponsive and foaming at the mouth, the apparent result of a head injury. He would later die in a coma at a hospital.




At first I thought this was about an OTM Latin American IA unfortunate enough to have been caught within Mexico and tossed into one of their jails.

I only realized that I was mistaken when it mentions that the man was taken to a hospital.

Glad to see they haven't given up their ridiculous propaganda tricks. The more they rant about this stuff, they worse they look.

And for their information, the only "racist groups" we have in this country is LaRaza, MALDEF, and all the other open borders groups who thinks this country should bend over for people who come into this country illegally and make demands.

Liberals constantly talk about the collateral damage in Iraq, innocent women and children being killed. My question to them is, How much collateral damage are you willing to endure to allow "immigrants" to come in illegally? How many people are you willing to sacrifice on the hwys? How many more drug dealers will you allow to poison society? How many children to molestation? How much are you willing to pay to subsidize their medical bills? How many small businesses are you willing to let go under along with individuals who are undercut in the construction and other trades? Are you willing for your child's education to suffer because of overcrowding, ESL classes, and overburdened teachers trying to meet NCLB when they have to deal with groups of non-English speakers? Are you willing to leave a balkanized Nation to your children, one that bears no semblance to the present?

For every illegal that just simply works hard, there are others who have no intention of doing so and are only here to take what they can.

The web is replete with thousands of stories of families who lives have been destroyed by illegal aliens. These people want to ignore the collateral damage and only focus on the "poor, exploited immigrants." There are just way too many dead, wounded and scarred for life, people in this country for us "loud mouths" to ignore the damage done to society by illegal aliens who don't have the best of intentions.