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Re: Elvira Arrellano Leaves Sanctuary, Placed Under Arrest

You've got the questions backwards, Jorge.

Start with the question, "what right does US agribusiness have to dump corn into Mexico at less than the cost of production, making it impossible for Mexican peasants to survive not matter how hard they work, and driving them into a starvation mode of existence?"

If you answer that, and follow its implications, you'll find the answer to your question.

It's related to natural law, trumping the US code in a moral sense, that people can do what's necessary not to starve, save causing others to starve.

Try a radical experiment, and a Christian one as well. Deconstruct 'The Other' in your thinking and put yourself in her shoes. Then ask another Christian question: Am I my brothers keeper?

Those may be relevant to you, even if Marxist economic analysis is not.

Against, this is an economic problem that requires longer term economic solutions. There are no 'legal' quick fixes, at least that our country, or any other, would have the stomach for.

So turn off Lou Dobbs for a while, and think a little harder and differently on this. If you're a person of faith, consult you priest or pastor on right and wrong here.
 
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