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DYK CA allows its jails to hand people to @ICEgov for deportation *after* their sentence is over? It does! And, as our latest research shows, that policy is rooted in anti-Asian racism.
A 🧵on our report + why the #VISIONAct can help undo the harm: 1/10 bit.ly/3AcVJl0
A 🧵on our report + why the #VISIONAct can help undo the harm: 1/10 bit.ly/3AcVJl0
The #VISIONAct, which CA Senate will vote on w/in weeks, would protect immigrants from the horrors of deportation by stopping all transfers to @ICEgov.
A couple of key points on why we our research shows it should be passed 👇 2/10 bit.ly/3bMnaJa
A couple of key points on why we our research shows it should be passed 👇 2/10 bit.ly/3bMnaJa
Tying immigration enforcement to criminal convictions has a sordid, racist history. The country’s first deportation laws were rooted in anti-Asian racism.
Sadly, California legislators played a key role in developing these laws. 3/10
Sadly, California legislators played a key role in developing these laws. 3/10
There is no way to humanize or soften the violence of deportation.
Biden’s new immigration memo comes days after CBP’s brutal dehumanization of Haitian migrants. Far from upending racist Trump-era policies, it reinforces the false idea that immigrants are a threat. 🧵⬇️
Biden’s new immigration memo comes days after CBP’s brutal dehumanization of Haitian migrants. Far from upending racist Trump-era policies, it reinforces the false idea that immigrants are a threat. 🧵⬇️
This memo gives federal immigration officials more power and less accountability, and justifies state-sponsored violence.
Instead, Biden must terminate the racist Title 42, close detention centers, free people, and defund ICE to truly enact change towards immigrant justice.
Instead, Biden must terminate the racist Title 42, close detention centers, free people, and defund ICE to truly enact change towards immigrant justice.
Quick🧵on why the fascist-hijacked Republican Party will win its war on American democracy if Democrats keep caving to their scaremongering re: racial justice. Today, the frontlines of the war are in Sacramento, CA. It's about the #VisionAct.
calmatters.org/commentary/202…
calmatters.org/commentary/202…
Despite all of the advances CA has made to protect immigrant communities, we continue to have double standards for criminals based on where they're from. I wrote previously about why this is morally wrong. jezebel.com/no-country-for…
What happens in CA has ripple effects nationwide. If CA Democrats fail to show leadership on this issue, they shouldn't be surprised when D's in D.C. cave to nativists on immigration reform and we continue to have a terrorized, subjugated class of 11M people in the US.
“When California has a two-tiered justice system, I have a problem with that. I believe in keeping families together.” - @AsmCarrillo
Happening now!! Community members who were previously separated from their families due to ICE transfers are joining with legislators on the steps of the Capitol to call for passage of the #VISIONAct #breaking #ICEoutofCalifornia #EndICEtransfers 
With thanks, a blessing, and a song, let’s get this started.
Opening today’s #VISIONAct press conference is Charles Joseph. Charles is an Indo-Fijian artist and a spiritual activist in residence at @4humanintegrity
