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Politics of Class and Corporations
By Tom Barry | August 09, 2005

Americas Program, International Relations Center (IRC) americas.irc-online.org


(This is the second in a series of reports by the IRC Americas programthat examine the political forces shaping the immigration debate in the United States. All recent immigration policy reports are found at: http://americas.irc-online.org/index/immig/index.php.)

Stark divides mark the American political landscape. Red vs. blue states, the culture war, and the patriots vs. the peaceniks, to say nothing of the deepening economic divides between rich and poor, with the middle class beset with debt and worries about the future. Despite these deep divides, the aphorism that politics makes strange bedfellows holds trueâ€â€