The images, the sounds, the stories, and the racist rhetoric evoke the worst moments in our country’s history. They remind us of the horrors experienced by Native American children separated from their families, and the xenophobia that enabled the creation of Japanese internment camps. And they force us to examine our present and confront the fact that it is not only immigrant children who languish in jails. Black and brown children and adults have been fed into a racist system of mass incarceration for decades. We know that these events are the result of the cruelty of those in power, and the complacency of others.
We are at a moment of choice. When we look back to this moment, knowing what we now know, we will without doubt ask ourselves if we did enough to stop it.
Thousands and thousands of people are answering that question by showing up to the fight. They are choosing to stand up for each other, for our families, and for a vision of the country where we can all be free. Just yesterday, thousands of allies joined with immigrant leaders from community organizations like Make the Road New Jersey, to occupy congressional offices and hold vigils outside of ICE facilities to demand that congress #CloseTheCamps.
Over the new few weeks and months, we will need to scale up our efforts to demand urgent moral action from those in congress and the White House. Join us in the streets on Friday, July 12, for the Lights for Liberty, a national day of action to #CloseTheCamps.
And the organizations that are part of our network will anchor almost-daily actions in front of detention camps, ICE facilities, and congressional offices in states across the country. You can help us build the urgent, massive, moral, roaring movement for justice by donating here.
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