Comrade Jorge,
The Immigrants' Rights Working Group has endorsed and now urges DSA members to take action and answer the call from Haitian Bridge Alliance for demonstrations in cities around the country on Thursday, October 14, in support of people from Haiti, Black migrants, and all immigrants fleeing persecution and seeking a better life.
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From Haitian Bridge Alliance:
Now we are calling on you.
We need you to protest at federal buildings and congressional offices and to raise your voice in outrage.
Biden’s actions violate the dignity, human rights, and right to asylum of all migrants. Deportation will be a death sentence for many.
Biden’s own envoy to Haiti resigned in disgust, calling his actions “inhumane.” The New York Times said the deportations were “worse” than what Trump did.
And it will become worse and worse if we don’t act. The torture, killings, concentration camps, ripping babies from mothers is a preview of a future in which heavily militarized borders and white nationalism collide with climate chaos and social upheaval.
We need you to act now. We need all our supporters, all our allies, all those who love justice and despise oppression to rally, to vigil, to protest on Thursday, October 14
As democratic socialists the defense of immigrant and refugee rights is a top priority.
We recognize that migrants experience the most damning and direct crimes of the neoliberal capitalist system. Militarized borders, xenophobic/racist immigration laws, and an abusive prison industrial complex aim to dehumanize and marginalize immigrants, functioning to both suppress wages and divide the working class. We seek to abolish these and any barrier to the social, labor, and political power of migrants through our organized movement
Now is the time to answer the call from leaders in this struggle at Haitian Bridge Alliance. Join an action already being organized or step up in areas where support is needed.
In solidarity,
Immigrants' Rights Working Group Steering Committee
