Xenophobia Lyrics - Aus Rotten

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 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 

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 benefits 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