This is why I think, in many ways, the immigration
conversation is a racial justice conversation.… I think that it would be a lie
to have an analysis of the immigration system that doesn't speak very directly
about the influence of race in this country.
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| Aly Wane at SOA protest. Photo: Stephen Pa |
By Sarah Jaffe, Truthout
March 2, 2017
Today we bring you a conversation with Aly Wane, an
undocumented organizer based in Syracuse, New York. Originally born in Senegal,
Wane works with a range of groups, including the Syracuse Peace Council, Black
Alliance for Just Immigration, the Undocumented and Black Network and Black
Lives Matter Syracuse.
Sarah Jaffe: Everybody is posting this story on Facebook
of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) taking an immigrant with a brain
tumor out of the hospital, and most people are posting this with "That is
not normal," "I can't believe this is our new normal." Your
response was, "I see ICE is getting back to its old tactics." Can you
talk a little bit about what "normal" has been for immigrants?
Aly Wane: I think those of us who have been
undocumented organizers for years are struggling with two energies right now.
On the one hand, we are so excited to see so many new folks come into
organizing spaces, realize what ICE and Border Patrol, with the cooperation of
police, have been doing for so many years and really want to fight that. However,
so much of this stuff was happening under both Obama and President Bush Jr.,
and we were not getting the same responses.[…]
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