May 1 march in DC to stop immigration raids and racist 287g program

The U.S. Homeland Security’s Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) is expecting to incarcerate 440 thousand undocumented immigrants in 2009, according to official data, including not only adult workers but also children, pregnant women, elderly and mentally ill. This will cost over $ 1.7 billion dollars to the federal government at a rate of $99 dollars per person daily.

Anti immigration raids are racially motivated, they do not stop undocumented immigration, they criminalize workers and families, and they violate human rights. It is time to stop raids and incarcerations.

Local police enforcement of federal immigration laws (ICE-287g Program) has caused racial discrimination, human rights abuses, lawful detention of American citizens, division of families, abandonment of children whose parents are suddenly deported, and countless similar human tragedies.

But undocumented immigration continues. It is time to stop abuse and racism, xenophobia and hatred on immigrants, especially against Indigenous and Afro descendants from the Americas.

It is time to push for a legal reform in the United States which can be fair and realistic. This will end a humanitarian crisis that has caused thousands of deaths in the border and unfair incarcerations.

Join hundreds of rallies for immigrants, tomorrow May 1, 2009 all across the United States. In Washington, DC we will gather at Malcolm X Park (Meridian Hill) at 3:00 PM and we will rally to the White House at 4:00 PM. Bring your friends, relatives, neighbors, coworkers.

Yes we can.

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