Monday, April 01, 2013

Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, Featured on Press TV's US Desk: 'Current Immigration Laws Are Punitive'

‘Current US immigration laws are punitive’

To listen to this statement by Abayomi Azikiwe, PANW Editor, just click on the website below:
http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/296001.html

Abayomi Azikiwe, political editor at Pan-African News Wire, believes that the current immigration laws in the United States are “punitive.”

The laws are set up in a way “that Homeland Security forces, through the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are able to violate basic, fundamental norms of human rights and civility inside the United States,” Azikiwe told Press TV’s U.S. Desk on Sunday.

The American “people have no idea that they are being targeted by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement,” he stated.

Azikiwe also said that immigrants in the U.S. “are heavily exploited” both in the workplace and politically.

Lawmakers in both houses of Congress are drafting legislation to overhaul America’s much-criticized immigration system.

Azikiwe lamented that many of the proposals laid out by lawmakers are too focused on “economic issues.”

“They in fact are working towards the continuing and even intensified exploitation of the immigrants.”

A strong majority of Americans, 71 percent, believe that undocumented immigrants should be allowed to stay in the United States legally, although a smaller portion believe they should be given a pathway to citizenship, according to a Pew Research Center poll released on Thursday.

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