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February 28, 2013
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Our Vision: People of African decent unite for racial
justice and migrant rights to achieve social, economicand political power.
Our Mission: We are a kinship of organizations and
individuals connecting, training and building towardspolicy and cultural shifts for a racial justice and migrantrights agenda.
Our Network
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1. Highlight the intersection of race, migration and
globalization
2. Understand the role of race in immigrationdiscourse
3. Current Immigration Reform Political Landscape4. Share Principles for Just Immigration Reform
Goals of this Webinar
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Nunu Kidane, Priority Africa Network
Gerald Lenoir, Black Alliance for Just ImmigrationAbraham Paulos, Families For Freedom
Francesca Menes, Florida Immigrant Coalition
Moderated by Opal Tometi, Black Immigration Network
Webinar Presenters
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Opal Tometi
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Nunu Kidane
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United Nations estimates on migration is 220 million people livingoutside their countries of birth
Broader human mobility indicators are that one billion of the sevenbillion global population are in motion for one reason or another
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Fundamental human rights are violated when people areforced to leave. The right to stay home in security of self/
community, right to shelter, food, health and educationare enshrined in the UN Universal Declaration of Human
Rights.
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There has been unprecedented
economic growth across the globein the past 25 years. But the
disparity between the rich and
poor is at a historic high bothamong industrialized nationsand the Global South.
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Life expectancy Maternal and child mortality Health disparities Income/housing gap Educational attainment Criminalization
Parallels between Global South & U.S.-
based Blacks and People of Color
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Gerald Lenoir
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Race, Racism and Immigrant Rights:
Framing the Struggle for ComprehensiveImmigration Reform
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Immigrant rights is one of the cutting edge issues inthe struggle for racial justice in the United States.
The attack on immigrant rights is part of a broaderattack on the gains of the Civil Rights/Black PowerMovements and the other social movements of the1950s and 1960s.
The criminalization, mass incarceration anddisenfranchisement of African Americans in the
War on Drugs is mirrored by the criminalization,mass detention and deportation of immigrants ofcolor.
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1829 The president of Mexico Vincente Guererro,the son of an African Mexican father and an Indianmother, outlawed slavery in Mexican territories.
1836 US white settler died at the Alamo, fighting topreserve slavery in Texas; nine years later, the U.S.annexed of Mexicos territory, including Texas,Colorado, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Arizona andpart of Wyoming.
1865 Slavery abolished in the US and the Ku KluxKlan is formed.
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1954 the White Citizens Council, the white-collar version of the KKK, isformed in the South.
1965 In the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, President Johnson signedinto law the Immigration and Naturalization Act, which abolished thenational origins quota, replacing it with a preference system that focusedon immigrants' skills and family relationships with citizens or U.S.residents. It ended the longstanding preference for immigration fromWestern European countries; immigration opened up for people in Africa,Asia, Latin American and the Middle East.
1979 The Federation for American Immigration Reform (FAIR), an anti-immigrant group, was formed; members have ties to the White CitizensCouncil and other white supremacist organizations.
2011 - According to the Southern Poverty Center, there were 1,018 hategroups in the U.S., a 69% increase since 2000. (www.splcenter.org)
This surge has been fueled by anger and fear over the nations ailing economy, aninflux of non-white immigrants, and the diminishing white majority, as symbolized by
the election of the nations first African-American president. Southern PovertyLaw Center
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The attack on immigrants has led to a broader attack onthe civil and human rights of people of color, includingAfrican Americans.
In 2010, Arizona enacted SB1070, which is widelyrecognized as a racial profiling bill. Five other states
Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, Indiana and Utahfollowed suit.
In the same year, Arizona passed a law banning ethicstudies in the public schools; Arizona voters also passedan initiative banning affirmative action by units of stategovernment, including public colleges and universities.
After the 2010 election, in more than a dozen states,Republicans passed voting restrictions aimed atreducing the turnout of young voters, African-Americans and Hispanics. The stated purpose of thelegislation was to prevent noncitizens from voting. Tenmajor restrictive voting laws were blocked in court.
Codified Racism: The ArizonaExample and Beyond
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The U.S. locks up the highest percentage of its population of any other
country730 per 100,000, nearly 2.5 million people. The prison populationhas surged by 45% in the last 20 years, with the U.S. at 5% of the worlds
population but 25% of the worlds prison population.
The so-called War on Drugs has disproportionately targeted AfricanAmericans. African Americans are 13% of the US population, yet over 40%of the U.S. prison population.
What has changed since the collapse of Jim Crow has less to do with the basicstructure of our society than with the language we use to justify it Rather than rely
on race, we use our criminal justice system to label people of color criminals andthen engage in all the practices we supposedly left behind... Once youre labeled a
felon, the old forms of discriminationemployment discrimination, housingdiscrimination, denial of the right to vote, denial of educational opportunity, denial offood stamps and other public benefits, and exclusion from jury serviceare suddenly
legal. --The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age ofColorblindness by Michelle Alexander
Mass Incarceration and Mass
Detention
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The criminalization and mass detention of immigrants of colormirrors the criminalization, disenfranchisement and massincarceration of African Americans.
"Mexican Nationals constitute 70 percent of all immigration violatorsapprehended by local police between 2002-2004, despite the fact that Mexicanscomprise 56 percent of the unauthorized migrant population. [Caribbean andAfrican immigrant violators] were apprehended at a rate that was more thatfive times the size of their presence in the unauthorized migrant population.
Black immigrants are deported for criminal reasons at a rate that is unsurpassedby any other racial group. --"The Immigration Crucible: Transforming
Race, Nation and the Limits of the Law by Philip Kretsedemas
As a result of immigration enforcement, Latinos now make up themajority of people sent to prison for felony crimes. Latinos make up16% of the U.S. population, yet in 2011, they were 50.3% of thosesentenced.
Mass Incarceration and Mass Detention
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Abraham Paulos
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Criminalizationorcriminalisation, incriminology, is"the process by which behaviors and individuals aretransformed intocrimeand criminals".[1]Previously
legal acts may be transformed into crimesbylegislationor judicial decision.
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13th Amendment to the U.S. ConstitutionNeither slavery nor involuntary
servitude, except as a punishment forcrime whereof the party shall have been
duly convicted, shall exist within the
United States.
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Mandatory detention and deportation for noncitizens
with criminal convictions
Expanded kinds of crimes that would lead todeportation, even of longtime lawful permanent
residents
Expanded definition of aggravated felony: need notbe aggravated or felonies
Eliminated main form of relief for lawful permanentresidents charged with deportation based on crimes
Attempted to eliminate judicial review of removalorders based on criminal convictions
Features of the 1996 Laws
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ICE Agreements of Cooperation in
Communities to Enhance Safety and Security
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Francesca Menes
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1. Family Unity2.
No Criminalization of Migrants3. Citizenship for Temporary Status Holders
4. Economic Justice
BLACK IMMIGRATION NETWORKSJUST IMMIGRATION REFORM PRINCIPLES
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As a network we believe that family reunification must
be the cornerstone of U.S. immigration policy. We
believe that strong families make for successfulcommunities. And all family members, despite
immigration status, belong together.
Family Unity
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Our kinship recognizes that Black immigrants and
African Americans continue to be disproportionally
represented in all facets of the U.S. criminal justicesystem due to structural racism and endemic
criminalization. The rapid growth of immigrantdetention has been influenced by the growing
intersection between federal enforcement activities and
immigration enforcement. We stand ardently againstthis as it continues to undermine our communities, andbe used as a mechanism for social control and profit for
corporations.
No Criminalization of
Migrants
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We believe that fair and just
Immigration Reform must provideimmigrants with temporary status
with a permanent status in the form
of U.S. Citizenship.
Citizenship for Temporary
Status Holders
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As a network comprised of African Americans and
Black immigrants we recognize our communities have
experienced systematic economic injustice and believethat immigration reform should not be further punitive.
Just Immigration Reform can and should improvecommunities that are receiving immigrants, as well asthose migrants who are seeking to make the U.S. their
home.
Economic Justice
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On March 20th 500+ Rally in DC
More information on Facebook: Bit.ly/Blacks4CIR
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We welcome both Organizations and Individuals to be
Members of the Network
Promote black leadership Education & training tools Discounts on resources & conference Dues are as low as $10 / year
Connect. Commune. Collaborate.
www.blackimmigration.net/membership
Become a Member
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Question & Answers
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