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Howie Hawkins on Immigration
Green Party Challenger for President
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All seeking asylum should be given permanent resident status
All persons fleeing political, racial, religious, or other types of persecution must be welcomed and given permanent resident status. The history of arbitrary denial of political asylum claims must be ended.
Particular attention should be given to those minorities who are political exiles and refugees and those whose lives would be at risk if asylum is not granted.
We oppose the militarization of our borders, (mis)using the National Guard as border police, and building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. We call for the immediate dismantling of the border wall.
We mourn the death of those thousands of men, women and children who have died trying to cross this border, where a couple of decades ago such deaths were virtually unheard of.
Source: Green Party Platform adopted by 2020 presidential hopeful
, Jul 12, 2020
Demand open borders where movement between nations is free
The inhumanity of US immigration policy came to broad public attention in 2018 with the news coverage of forced separations of young children from their families on the southern US border. These crimes against humanity only underscored the long-standing
brutality of US immigration policy, which has treated people from Mexico and Central America in particular as cheap labor to be imported or deported based on US labor demand, like apartheid South Africa once used Bantustans.
We will demand open borders where movement between nations is free, like it is in the European Union. International borders should be authentic fair-trade zones where people are free to travel across borders for work, shopping, or recreation.
People crossing international borders would be required to present their identification at a border crossing. Only people wanted for criminal charges or terrorist organization affiliation would be detained.
Source: 2020 Presidential Campaign website HowieHawkins.us
, May 19, 2019
Supports path to citizenship
Q: What does Hawkins think of illegal immigrants earning citizenship?A: Supports promoting path to temporary, permanent and citizenship status.
Source: Email interview on 2006 Senate race with OnTheIssues.org
, Aug 1, 2006
Page last updated: Apr 29, 2021