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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

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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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