See Dr. Claude Anderson Weigh-in On How Immigration Harms Native US Blacks

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RESPECTED SCHOLAR EXPLAINS HOW IMMIGRATION HARMS NATIVE BLACKS

Nationwide -- Dr. Claud Anderson, best-selling author and President of The Harvest Institute, says, "Whether it is building a wall or open admission of immigrants, the partisan debate on immigration shut down the federal government and furloughed hundreds of thousands of employee, but has ignored a core issue: the effects of immigration on Native Blacks, the most vulnerable citizens." The Harvest Institute, a Washington, D.C. based non-profit policy and advocacy organization, has released an article on its website at www.HarvestInstitute.org, meant to address that issue.

Anderson comments, "Executing immigration policies without mitigating the negative impact those polices have on Black Americans is illegal and unconstitutional." The article explains that the 13th and 14th amendments to the U.S. Constitution, enacted at the end of the 1860's Civil War, mandated that Black people be treated in all manners similar to Whites and that government must use all necessary means to lift the legacies and burdens of slavery from the shoulders of Blacks. Since then, six succeeding generations of immigrants have been fast tracked into full American Dream membership while Black Americans remain the nation's official underclass.


The mandates of the 13th and 14th amendments of the U.S. Constitution have been ignored, violated and corrupted. These constitutional amendments were the collective base for the 1866 Civil Rights Laws designed to correct he 1857 Dredd Scott decision that held a Black man had no rights a White man was bound to respect. These laws were originally intended, not for all people, but to specifically correct the systemic injustice imposed upon Black people.