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John, 

Today kicks off Day 1 of the National Week of Action in Support of Black
Migrants led by Black Alliance for Just Immigration(BAJI), Color Of
Change, and other Black-led groups around the country.

Haitian asylum seekers who have for weeks and months been fleeing toward
what they thought was safety, are being terrorized, abused, and then
deported. Others are being sent to Guantanamo Bay, or back to Mexico where
organized crime and collaborators in Mexican security forces routinely
prey on Black migrants because of their skin color. 

Thousands of people, including families and children, will be expelled to
Haiti - a country the Administration itself has described as teetering on
the brink of collapse, after centuries of imperialism, foreign
intervention, climate crisis and more. 

Biden made promises to the Haitian community to have more fair immigration
policies. And yet he may soon be responsible for carrying out the largest
mass expulsion of would-be asylum-seekers in recent American history. 

It’s time to turn up the pressure and hold Biden to his promises. 

When we say Black lives matter, we must mean ALL Black lives - including
the lives of Black migrants.

[ [link removed] ]Join the week of action & demand biden protects black migrants today

P.S. See our original email message below.

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John,

When we say: Black lives matter, we mean ALL Black lives. Including
Haitian asylum seekers at the border. 

And yet, John, we were reminded once again just how deeply
ingrained anti-Blackness is in the institutions upon which the nation
relies. 

We don’t need to show you the images that surfaced from the US-Mexico
border of white Border Patrol officers on horses chasing, yelling, and
whipping Haitian asylum seekers to tell you how viscerally it conjures
this country's not so distant past; visions of violent slave patrols and
public lynchings reimagined by modern-day henchmen.

Haitian asylum seekers who have for weeks and months been fleeing toward
what they thought was safety, were terrorized, abused, and then deported.
Others are being sent to Guantanamo Bay, or back to Mexico where organized
crime and collaborators in Mexican security forces routinely prey on
migrants - especially Haitians, who are particularly vulnerable because of
their skin color. 

John, it’s time to put an end to anti-Black immigration
practices. Seeking asylum is a legal and human right, fundamental to
maintaining democracy. It must extend to Black people

[ [link removed] ]sign our petition & demand biden protects black migrants today  

John, while on the campaign trail, Biden made promises to the
Haitian community to have more fair immigration policies. And yet he may
soon be responsible for carrying out the largest mass expulsion of
would-be asylum-seekers in recent American history. 

Thousands of people, including families and children, will be expelled to
Haiti - a country the Administration itself has described as teetering on
the brink of collapse, which we know is a result of centuries of
imperialism and foreign intervention intent on destabilizing the first
Black republic. 

In just the past two and a half months alone, Haiti has seen its president
assassinated and weathered a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake, all in
the middle of a pandemic. 

John, it would be unconscionable to send people back to Haiti. 

Biden promised us a more humanitarian approach to immigration AND a
commitment to racial justice. We demand the Administration follows through
on its promises by:  

* Stopping deportations to Haiti
* Granting humanitarian parole to thousands of Black asylum seekers and
processing their claims without further delay
* Conducting a thorough investigation into the acts of Border Patrol
agents in Del Rio and anti-Black practices throughout the agency
* Halting the treatment we witnessed, and instead employing a
humanitarian approach to immigration

[ [link removed] ]add your name to our demands & affirm that all black lives matter

John, make no mistake, what’s happening at the border right now
is an extension of white supremacy in the United States.

Every arm of our country’s incarceration and deportation machine bears
down on and disrupts Black people and communities.

For decades, Black migrants have faced disproportionate rates of detention
and deportation and abuse like solitary confinement within detention
centers.

The message we’re being told once in again is: Black people are unwelcome
in the United States, and are subject to policing and abuse.

From police to immigration, we cannot and will not tolerate
anti-Blackness. 

Immigration is a Black issue. And we must:

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Until Justice is Real,

Scott, Erika, Rashad, Arisha, Malachi, Megan, Ernie, Palika, Ariel,
Madison, Trevor, Erick, Ana, Kristiana, McKayla and the Color Of Change
team



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