As we stand in solidarity in the fight for Black lives, thousands of people in the immigrant community also await a Supreme Court decision on DACA with fear and anxiety. This decision can come at any time now. The Trump administration decided to end this program as a way to use immigrant youth as a bargaining chip to enact his racist immigration agenda. We will not let this happen. DACA recipients will not trade our safety, for the safety of our parents and community members.
Today, we ask everyone to not look away and join us in a day of action on the day of the SCOTUS decision. No matter what they decide, we will;
Call for Trump to resign,
Join our Black community members in a demand for local governments to #DefundThePolice departments across the country and reinvest in quality housing and education, financial and economic support, climate justice, healthcare for all, and mental health services and,
Demand the federal government to defund ICE and CBP as a first step to #AbolishICE.
Ending DACA was part of Trump’s plan to grow his deportation force. His administration will start talking about a push for congress to pass legislation for DACA recipients to have permanent protection, but we must not fall for Trump’s political tricks and lies. If he was serious about protecting immigrant youth from deportation, he would have not ended the program in the first place. Instead, DACA recipients will most likely be targeted by his deportation and detention machine.
This is also a time for us to fight together against a criminal justice system that is designed to target immigrant communities and the Black communities. A racist system rooted in white supremacy that kills Black people and incarcerates thousands of black and brown people in jails and prisons, which become pipelines for ICE detention centers and deportation.
We must remember that for the undocumented community, the police are no different than ICE. They are an extension of ICE.
We are joining the call to defund the police on the day of the decision because we believe a deeper kind of intersectional work is required for us to fulfill our mission and liberate our most vulnerable communities from systemic oppression.
