The nation's oldest legal and civil rights organization serving the low-income Asian American Pacific Islander communities.
Oct 4, 2021 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
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. 🧵⬇️
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.
