Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community (ISBN 0873388925)

Rehumanizing "illegal aliens":
This wonderful book is so needed in this era of immigrant-bashing. I discovered "Growing Season" after a segment of it was excerpted in "The Sun" magazine. It's such a pleasure to hear the stories of people from Latin America and those who work with them, and how the so-called "problem" or "invasion" of immigrants has actually provided benefits for countless people on both sides of the border. Citizens of the US, the world's superpower, should also keep in mind that it is policies that emanate from Wall Street and the Pentagon that have forced so many people to come here in the first place. We owe our Latin American brothers and sisters a warm welcome, even an apology, for the generations of exploiting their labor and resources (see books like "The Annexation of Mexico" by John Ross or "Turning the Tide" by Noam Chomsky"). I'm going to buy an extra copy of this book and send it to Representative Tom Tancredo, one of this nation's leading demagogues on the issue of immigration.