Aus-Rotten - Xenophobia lyrics

Restricitng immigration won't solve
This country's problems
The refugees are only our leaders scapegoats

Bigoted politicians claim that immigration
Is unemployment's source
So the INS are given
Unending power to enforce
The restrictions regulated by
Immigrants descendants
Who project open border policies
As national resentments
Unwilling to provide the same
Opportunities they've been given
To desperate refugees whose passage
Has been forbidden
By a government who's often reponsible
For their countries situation
But they just intensify the
Suffering by restricting immigration

Denying immigrants from crossing a line
They're closing the borders like
They've closed their minds
Regardless of citizenship we're all the same
No human is illegal like governments claim

Exploiting foreign markets with
Capitalisms principles nafta was created to
Benefit the multinationals
Big business cuts their expenses
With their sweatshop wage
Keeping foreign labor in an economical cage
They've created the incentive to ship the
Jobs out of this country
Making Americans more receptive to
Minimum wage and bigotry
The government maintains approval when
Their fault remains concealed
They'll just find another scapegoat after
They pass the anti-immigration bill

Denying immigrants from crossing a line
They're closing the borders like
They've closed their minds
Regardless of citizenship we're all the same
No human is illegal like governments claim

Denying immigrants from crossing a line
They're closing the borders like
They've closed their minds
Regardless of citizenship we're all the same
No human is illegal like
The governments claim

Creating xenophobia is another tactic in
Which our leaders have managed
To redirect blame to someone other
Than themselves or big business
The media lap up the reports
Of increasing poverty, unemployment
Welfare and government aid
Supposedly caused by refugees
While largely ignoring
The countless reports of rapes, beating
And general harassment by the INS
And US border patrols
Not to mention American servicemen
Actually crossing the
Mexican border to rape women or
New York police officers gang raping a
Haitian immigrant with a plunger
These atrocities occur because xenophobia
Has instilled the thinking
That refugees are problems and not people
Xenophobia kills!

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Patriotism plants the seeds of
Ignorance and hate
Destroying the people and all compassion
To protect the state
Every person is entitled to live
No human should be banned
It only benefit's the wealthy to
Own a piece of land
It only divides the people by the borders
By the countries
It's only another obstacle blocking
Any chance of equality
We've got to smash their walls
Our efforts must persist
We've got to wake the people up
To see what they've dismissed

People are not expendable, government is
People are not expendable, government is
People are not expendable, government is
People are not expendable government is