It is reported today in the NYT that Senate Democrats may give in to the Republican demand to extend the Trump era policy of Title 42 to ban almost all immigration across the southern border ( except for Ukranian refugees).
They demand the extension of this Trump era policy as their price for supporting an extension of Covid relief funding. Continuing the Trump era policy of Title 42 is a race based process that excludes most immigrants from crossing the border. They are arrested and sent back to Mexico, although they may be from Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador and elsewhere. The continuation of Title 42 is an immoral use of a medical policy derived from Trump’s failure to develop a sound Covid policy.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/11/us/politics/covid-aid-immigration.html?
Opposition to the race based and race biased programs of the Trump era are central to our own strategy developed in Where Do We Go From Here?
https://www.dsanorthstar.org/our-strategy.html
As cited in our own strategy document,
A “go it alone” approach devalues coalition work and glosses over the importance – indeed, the necessity – of a center-left coalition to defend democracy from neo-fascism.
DSA had a Immigrants Rights Working Group, with 3 members of North Star on it. This group sought to build solidarity and to work cooperatively with other immigrant rights organization and activists.
If you have a Democrat elected Senator , please contact them and insist that there must be no compromise to extend Title 42 of the current immigration practice.
Additional ideas are welcome.
Duane Campbell
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