Defend Our Communities! Defend Migrants’ Struggles!
Build the mass movement against the fascist attacks on migrants and migrant leaders
The International League of Peoples’ Struggle US Country Chapter resolutely and unwaveringly stands with all migrant communities fighting to assert their interests and well-being amidst fascist attacks! Since the Trump regime’s ascension to power, we have seen an onslaught of attacks against migrants in the US and the massive expansion of the repressive state machinery, mobilizing the full capacity of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to expand sweeping deportation, detention, and disappearances.
Along with the widespread attacks against migrant communities as a whole, Trump has utilized ICE and deportations to target leaders, activists, and organizers. Earlier this year, Venezuelan migrant José Medina Andrade, who had organized alongside his community, was detained at Guantanamo Migrant Operations Center with claims of being tortured. This month ICE officers arrested Palestinian student leader Mahmoud Khalil in his home for his work advancing the liberation of Palestine, sparking a trend of ICE crackdown on pro-palestine migrant students and teachers, including Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk, Columbia student Yunseo Chung and Georgetown professor Badar Khan Suri. This week, we saw the ICE detainment of Jeanette Vizguerra, an activist alongside domestic worker families, a mother, and a worker who has fought against anti-migrant attacks in her community for many years and had previously worked to call for justice for Elijah McClain. Earlier, farmworker leader Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was violently abducted by ICE. Most recently, Alma Bowman, a 58-year-old Filipina, mother to two sons, and a human rights and migrants rights advocate was detained after their annual mandated check-in visit at the Atlanta ICE Office and faces potential deportation. Having been previously wrongfully detained by ICE, they witnessed medical malpractice on migrant women among other atrocities and have bravely worked to expose these injustices for many years.
Amid rhetoric which falsely labels migrants as “dangerous criminals” we see the blatant attacks on migrants and migrant leaders are part of the broader trend of rising fascism under Trump. Many migrants are forcefully displaced from their homeland due to the aggressive domination and plunder at the hands of the US imperialists, only to face further displacement and aggressive attacks at the hands of the US state directly. When they justly take up the cause of organizing to address their conditions, the state attempts to sow fear and disunity and unleashes violent repression in an effort to crush the movement.
Despite the unrelenting campaign of terror by the Trump regime, growing numbers of migrant activists are taking on the task of boldly organizing despite the ongoing and rampant fascist repression. In major cities across the country, migrant communities are organizing defense networks to oppose deportation, but also taking on fights against wage theft in the workplace, exposing inhumane conditions in detention facilities, and organizing for the liberation of their homelands. The mass movement of migrants is continually growing as the people resolutely fight back, a threat to the profit making schemes of corporations that exploit migrants and run facilities that profit from their detainment. When the repressive state machinery is activated to target migrants fighting back, the mass movement is prepared to fight for their defense. We must not only build a mass movement to defend ourselves against the attacks, but we must unite all people together to confront the imperialist system which gives rise to the displacement, exploitation, and fascist attacks!
ILPS US calls for justice for and release of all migrant leaders and to build a peoples’ movement to stop the attacks on migrants and end family separation!
Defend Peoples’ Struggles!
Defend Migrant Struggles!
The People United Will Never Be Defeated!