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Dear Allies,
It has been exactly one week since President Biden signed his series of immigration-related Executive Orders, including one that orders the immediate review of the Public Charge regulation. Since then, the PIF team has been busy sharing out information with the coalition & planning what comes next.
This month is Black History Month and we want to recognize, celebrate, and honor black leaders and organizations who are on the frontlines of the fight for social justice. As we celebrate the month of February and as always, our collective social justice movements must continue to center Black voices in our struggle for a just immigration system and stand with our loved ones in the movement for Black lives. At PIF, we know that immigrant justice is racial justice, and the recent deportations of Black immigrants throughout the beginning of the month is yet another abhorrent entry in a long history of abuses in this country against Black people and Black immigrants.
We are grateful for and inspired by the tireless work of our partners at UndocuBlack and the Haitian Bridge Alliance who organized and put a stop to deportations to Haiti last week, but unfortunately the ICE deportations have resumed. We want to share a toolkit developed by the Haitian Bridge Alliance & Families Belong Together that provides a list of readings, social media accounts to follow, and sample tweets and social media graphics to share in response to continued deportations of Black immigrants. While stopping deportations has not been a part of PIF’s history, we encourage all of us to stand with our colegas in this critical moment. “I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people” - Huey P. Newton.
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