Xenophobia Letra

Restricitng immigration won't solve this country's problems The refugees are only our leaders scapegoats Bigoted politicians claim that immigration is unemployment's source So th INS are given unending power to enforce The restrictions regulated by immigrants descendants Who project open border plicies as national resentments Unwilling to provide the same opportunities they've been given To desperate refugees whose passage has been forbidden By a government who's often reponsible for their countries situation But they just intensify the suffering by restricting immigration Denying immigrants from corssing a line They're closing the borders like they've closed their minds Regardless of citizenship we're all the same No human is illegal like governments claim Exploiting foreign markets with capitalisms principles NAFTA was created to benefit the multinationals Big business cuts their expenses with their sweatshop wage Keeping foreign labor in an economical cage They've created the incentive to ship the jobs out of this country Making Americans more receptive to minimum wage and bigotry The government maintains approval when their fault remains concealed They'll just find another scapegoat after they pass the anti-immigration bill Denying immigrants from crossing a line They're closing the borders like they've closed their minds Regardless of citizenship we're all the same No human is illegal like the governments claim Creating xenophobia is another tactic in which our leaders have managed To redirect blame to someone other than themselves or big business The media lap up the reports of increasing poverty, unemployment, welfare an Government aid supposedly caused by refugees while largely ignoring the Countless reports of rapes, beating, and general harassment by the INS and US border patrols Not to mention Americana servicement Actually crossing the Mexican border to rape women or New York police Officers gang raping a Haitian immigrant with a plunger These atrocities Occur because xenophobia has instilled the thinking that refugees are Problems and not people...Xenophobia kills Patriotism plants the seens of ignorance and hate Destroying the people and all compassion to protect the state Every person is entitled to live, no human should be banned It only benefits the wealthy to own a piece of land It only divides the people by the borders, by the countries It's only another obstacle blocking any chance of equality We've got to smash their walls our efforts must persist We've got to wake the people up to see what they've dismissed People are not expendable, government is