Win and Turn Back Trump

Win and Turn Back Trump

This election we reject the status quo & organize under strategic necessity to create the conditions that drive change from the ground up.

Biden’s First 100 Days on Immigration

As President Biden’s first 100 days come to a close, here is where we are in the fight to make sure the administration addresses deportations and immigration enforcement, and listens to the voices of our communities: 

  • We’ve made our voices heard. As President Biden launched a review of immigration enforcement policies, we launched the Eyes on ICE series, because no review of immigration enforcement policies is complete without the voices of those directly impacted. Since the launch of the series we have partnered across 78 different co-hosting organizations to host 30 forums with participation from 48 states & Mexico. We’ve also documented 150 testimonies that speak to the specific reasons why deportations must stop, ICE must be dismantled, and how to go about doing it.

  • Our communities are still getting deported and detained. More than 300,000 people have been deported since President Biden took office and individuals seeking asylum have been consistently turned away. And as for-profit immigration detentions centers remain, families separation continues and our communities endure discrimination and criminalzaiton. Just in the last week, Isrrael Victorio-Tegoma, one of the people who provided testimony for the Eyes on ICE forum from detention was deported. 

  • Sec. Mayorkas has committed to attending a public meeting. Mijente and the “We are Home” campaign asked DHS Secretary Mayorkas to meet with community members directly impacted by immigration enforcement. Although the date is still pending, he has committed to scheduling a public forum with us in the near future. We will make sure that this meeting takes place as soon as possible and that our communities are heard, because we know that every day that Biden and Mayorkas delay action, the system will continue to unjustly harm millions of people.

  • The White House has not yet set their priorities for deportation – which means we still have a chance to influence them. The document that sets the instructions for ICE agents all over the country about who they should deport and who can have a chance to stay with their families has not been written yet. This means that we can still work to change the bad parts of the current policy, particularly the pieces that rely on the criminalization and policing of Black and brown communities. 

We will continue to organize with those whose lived experiences must inform the revisions made to DHS and immigration enforcement agencies. We will continue to fight for the meaningful change that our communities deserve.

We Mourn. We Rage. We Organize. Adam Toledo Presente.

The police have always been quick to draw their weapons and kill Black and Brown people. Our communities have lost too many lives at the hands of the state, whether it happens on the streets, prisons, or the border. For too long, the families of those who’ve had their loved ones ripped away have cried out for justice. In the few instances where governments have responded, they’ve tossed crumbs like trainings and some minimal oversight.

Real safety, however, continues to elude Black and Brown communities, because police cannot and will not be held accountable when they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing. The system is working as it has been designed to work – keep our communities in check, with a boot on our neck. As the target of their constant harassment and violence, we know all too well that the only solution is to reduce the scale, scope, size, and power of the police. That will only happen if local governments do what is just and defund all of their police departments. Outsized budgets have not kept us safe; on the contrary, they serve to increase interactions between community and police that keep turning deadly.

How many more deaths must we be subjected to and bear witness to? How many more times do the cries of mothers who’ve lost their babies need to go unheard?

This is not just about a few bad apples, it is about an entire system that is based solely on punishment and profit and that is focused on criminalizing Black, Brown, migrant, poor folks, and anyone who is deemed undesirable. Judging the victim, making excuses for the officers involved, and cracking down on communities rising up in protest will always be par for the course.

We mourn, we rage, we organize.