After another week of enraging and disappointing immigration news, the UndocuBlack Network is heartsick but undeterred in our ongoing fight for justice for Black immigrants. The confluence of major immigration events over the past few weeks grounds our current advocacy in the lived realities of our Black undocumented community members, both past and present.
Firstly: We continue to work closely with our Black immigrant family at the Haitian Bridge Alliance to push for a thorough investigation into the anti-Black abuses of Haitian and other Black immigrants at the border and in detention nationwide.
Secondly: We thoroughly denounce the D.C. Circuit’s latest development in the Huisha-Huisha v. Mayorkas litigation to end Title 42 in the federal courts. Now that the D.C. Circuit has refused to make the moral choice, will the Biden administration keep brutalizing and deporting the people it is obligated to protect?
Thirdly: We acknowledge that September 30, 2021, was the 25th anniversary of the xenophobic and white supremacist Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA).
And lastly: UndocuBlack decries the latest DHS enforcement guidelines. These guidelines were never going to be radical or revolutionary, but they also fall short of the just and humane immigration system President Biden promised on the campaign trail.
These seemingly disparate events anger us, but they also reinforce our firm belief at the UndocuBlack Network that immigration is a Black issue.
At every turn, we see the urgent need for racial and migrant justice for our communities. These issues also reinforce the responsibility of Congress to pass a true, clean pathway to citizenship for undocumented people in this country through the reconciliation process right now. Congress must not abandon immigrant youth, TPS holders, DED holders, essential workers, and farmworkers at this time, during this onslaught and attack on our undocumented communities. UndocuBlack will continue to work with our partners to hold the United States Congress and the Biden administration to account if they do not deliver on their promises.
The UndocuBlack Network holds our Black immigrant family close at all times, and we are grateful to remain in the collective fight for liberation.
Please read our full statement here.
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