I believe I speak for a lot of my colleagues when I say this:
The last 4 yrs have radicalized me. I don't know now how I so blithely accepted borders & cages & administrative violence of all kinds as a regular part of my life and practice, but I never will again.
#abolishICE
The last 4 yrs have radicalized me. I don't know now how I so blithely accepted borders & cages & administrative violence of all kinds as a regular part of my life and practice, but I never will again.
#abolishICE
I'm only sorry that it took the cruelest and worst-run Presidential administration in at least the past century for me to see what this thing was the whole time I've been practicing, and a deep dive in the immigration history & policy I now teach to see what it's always been.
I still have a lot to learn & am feeling out my own understanding after so many years of basically accepting that things like prisons and detention centers and family visas which take 15-20 yrs "need" to exist, but I'm going to try to put the work in & encourage you to try it too
We can blame Trump/Miller/Sessions/Barr all we want, but they inherited a system which allowed them to do everything they did *without passing a single law in Congress.*
A system which will be just as bad & broken tomorrow at noon as it was exactly 4 yrs before that.
A system which will be just as bad & broken tomorrow at noon as it was exactly 4 yrs before that.
Many others have been saying all of this much better for much longer. All I want to say here is that if you have the privilege of a law license & access to mainstream professional spaces we can all do our part to bring & truly welcome abolitionist voices & views into these spaces
The broad outlines of the Biden immigration bill we may see as soon as tomorrow sound very good, certainly beyond my limited expectations. I'm ready to throw down for a path to citizenship, DREAMer/TPS residency, etc. But it's just a patch for some terminally buggy software.
I'll be happy to celebrate the end of the Trump years tomorrow, and I hope you get a chance to really enjoy it too. I just don't want to mistake this moment for actual progress, because that's only what we make it--
--and no one else will.
--and no one else will.
If a world without ICE is new to you or raises questions you can't answer, I may have some for you here--and if not answers, at least some jokes
#abolishICE
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#abolishICE
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