John,
We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: Black lives matter. And we mean ALL Black lives - including Black asylum seekers and migrants seeking refuge at the border.
And if we're going to make this statement a reality, we must demand Congress push the Biden Administration to allow Black and other migrants to seek asylum by ending the use of racist Title 42.
Join us to protect black migrants now
Seeking asylum is a recognized international, federal, and human right. And yet, the Biden Administration is continuing to use a policy called Title 42 to block vulnerable asylum seekers from entering the United States during the pandemic under the guise of curbing the spread of COVID-19.
But, John, current and former Center for Disease control experts and EVEN DR.FAUCI HIMSELF have agreed that using Title 42 to deny protection for desperate migrants is not how we fight the pandemic. 1
“The problem is within our own country,” Fauci explained in a recent interview on CNN. “Focusing on immigrants, expelling them... is not the solution to an outbreak.”2
Join Color Of Change in partnership with the Black Alliance for Just Immigration(BAJI) to send your Congress Member a letter urging action.
we need to end title 42 now
John, ending Title 42 is especially detrimental for asylum seekers from Haiti, where just this past year, the president was assassinated and the country weathered a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake, all in the middle of a pandemic.
And the situation in Haiti is exactly why the asylum process was created in the first place during the period following World War II!
But instead of being welcomed into our country, Haitian asylum seekers who have for weeks and months been fleeing toward what they thought was safety, are being terrorized as we saw in photographs of Border Patrol officers chasing, whipping and abusing Haitian migrants at the border last month.
John, we need to put pressure on the Biden Administration to end its racist use of Title 42.
send a letter: demand your congressperson takes action
John, while on the campaign trail, Biden made promises to the Haitian community to have more fair immigration policies. And yet he may soon be responsible for carrying out the largest mass expulsion of would-be asylum-seekers in recent American history.
And, John, this racist treatment of Haitian immigrants is nothing new.
Haitians have sought asylum in the U.S. for decades, but every presidential administration over the past 40 years has treated Haitians differently than other migrants - rejecting their asylum claims and holding them in detention for longer periods of time.
John, make no mistake, what’s happening at the border right now is an extension of white supremacy in the United States.
As we commit ourselves to racial justice in the United States, we can’t forget Black migrants and their families.
Please join us to:
demand your congressperson push biden to end title 42Until justice is real,
-- Scott, Rashad, Arisha, Malachi, Erika, Megan, Ernie, Palika, Madison, Ariel, Trevor, Ana, McKayla, and the rest of the Color Of Change team
References:
1. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/332078?t=9&akid=52396%2E4731121%2EJ3olZ3
2. https://act.colorofchange.org/go/332078?t=11&akid=52396%2E4731121%2EJ3olZ3
