3 Quotes & Sayings By Aviva Chomsky

Aviva Chomsky is the author of several books including: The Essential Dao: A Guide to Living in Balance (Jossey-Bass, 2004) and the novel A Few Short Stones (W.W. Norton, 2004). She has been a journalist for over twenty-five years and has written for such publications as The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. Her work has also appeared in numerous anthologies and collected volumes, including The Best American Essays (2000), O: An Anthology of Asian American Writing (2000), and the volumes of the StoryQuests series (Random House) Read more

She lives with her husband and children in New York City.

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Like other discriminatory legislation in our country's history, immigration laws define and differentiate legal status on the basis of arbitrary attributes. Immigration laws create unequal rights. People who break immigration laws don't cause harm or even potential harm (unlike, for example, drunk driving, which creates the potential for harm even if no accident occurs). Rather, people who break immigration laws do things that are perfectly legal for others, but denied to them--like crossing a border or, even more commonly, simply exist. . Aviva Chomsky
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If our goal is to slow migration, then the best way to do so is to work for a more equitable global system. But slowing migration is an odd goal, if the real problem is global inequality. Aviva Chomsky