Intro
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Restricitng immigration won't solve this country's problems
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The refugees are only our leaders scapegoats
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[Verse 1]
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Bigoted politicians claim that immigration is unemployment's source
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So the INS are given unending power to enforce
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The restrictions regulated by immigrants descendants
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Who project open border policies as national resentments
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Unwilling to provide the same opportunities they've been given
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To desperate refugees whose passage has been forbidden
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By a government who's often reponsible for their countries situation
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But they just intensify the suffering by restricting immigration
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Restrict immigrants from crossing a line
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They're closing the borders like they've closed their minds
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Regardless of citizenship we're all the same
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No human is illegal like governments claim
[Verse 2]
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Exploiting foreign markets with capitalisms principles
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NAFTA was created to benefit the multinationals
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Big business cuts their expenses with their sweatshop wage
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Keeping foreign labor in an economical cage
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They've created the incentive to ship the jobs out of this country
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Making Americans more receptive to minimum wage and bigotry
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The government maintains approval when their fault remains concealed
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They'll just find another scapegoat after they pass the anti-immigration bill
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Restrict immigrants from crossing a line
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They're closing the borders like they've closed their minds
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Regardless of citizenship we're all the same
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No human is illegal like governments claim
[Bridge]
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Creating xenophobia is another tactic in which our leaders have managed
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To redirect blame to someone other than themselves or big business
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The media lap up the reports of increasing poverty, unemployment, welfare and Government aid
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Supposedly caused by refugees
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While largely ignoring the countless reports of rapes, beating and
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Harassment by the INS and US border patrols
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Not to mention American servicemen actually crossing the Mexican border to rape women
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Or New York police Officers gang raping a Haitian immigrant with a plunger
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These atrocities occur because xenophobia has instilled the thinking
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That refugees are problems and not people
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Xenophobia kills
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Patriotism plants the seeds of ignorance and hate
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Destroying the people and all compassion to protect the state
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Every person is entitled to live, no human should be banned
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It only benefits the wealthy to own a piece of land
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It only divides the people by the borders, by the countries
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It's only another obstacle blocking any chance of equality
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We've got to smash their walls our efforts must persist
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We've got to wake the people up to see what they've dismissed
[Outro]
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People are not expendable, government is
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People are not expendable, government is
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People are not expendable, government is
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People are not expendable, government is
- 1. Chord Gitar Aus-Rotten - Xenophobia Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar E)
- 2. Ganti Chord Gitar Aus-Rotten - Xenophobia Kunci Dasar - Chords.id (Nada Dasar E)
- 3. Author Lagu Andra Ramadhan