antiracismdsa: DSA Statement on the Anti Immigrant Campaign in Springfield , Ohio and response

Tuesday, September 17, 2024

DSA Statement on the Anti Immigrant Campaign in Springfield , Ohio and response

Statement of Democratic Socialists of America ( NPC)

Solidarity with Springfield’s Haitian Community: DSA’s Statement on Anti-Immigrant Violence

September 17, 2024

DSA condemns in the strongest possible terms the hateful lies promoted by Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, and other Republican officials targeting Haitian immigrant communities in Springfield, Ohio. These lies have led to ongoing school and hospital closures over bomb threats, smashed windows, acid thrown on cars, death threats, and the canceling of beloved local cultural events due to safety concerns. The goal is clear: Trump’s lies intend to incite violence and harassment against working-class immigrant communities, not just in Springfield, but toward Black people living all over the country. In the lead up to their second term, he’s touting plans to launch mass deportations targeting millions. The far-right wants to divide and conquer the working class by using xenophobia and racism to pit workers against one another in a race to the bottom.

Democrats, including presidential candidate Kamala Harris, have enabled this rhetoric by remaining silent about the attacks on Springfield, while also affirming her plans to expand border policing. This is nothing less than appeasement to growing fascist anti-immigrant rhetoric.

The Presidential debate last Tuesday made clear that Trump’s hateful Project 2025 agenda would be catastrophic for the working class, both at home and abroad. Opposing the far right, as represented by the Republican Party under Trump’s neo-fascist leadership, is a necessity for the working class and for our movement.

The truth is that working people everywhere have a common humanity and shared struggle against the exploitative capitalist economic system, which is the real root cause of the increasing precarity and insecurity in our society. DSA is fighting for a world where all people live together in peace, regardless of race, ethnicity, or national origin. Immigrants are welcome here. People everywhere are hurting, struggling to pay bills, buy groceries, and live beyond paycheck to paycheck. But this is not because of the immigrants who are living in this country: our suffering is due to the insatiable greed of the billionaire class.

We will stand against anti-immigrant hate anywhere and everywhere it appears, and we continue to fight against the greed of billionaires like Donald Trump and the lies they tell to keep us from achieving working class solidarity.

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National DSA has made the statement above. Most of the statement is a good statement of the situation and policy. https://www.dsausa.org/statements/solidarity-with-springfields-haitian-community/

The following part of the statement is in error.

Democrats, including presidential candidate Kamala Harris, have enabled this rhetoric by remaining silent about the attacks on Springfield, while also affirming her plans to expand border policing. This is nothing less than appeasement to growing fascist anti-immigrant rhetoric.

See here for the errors.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/17/us/politics/harris-trump-haitian-migrants-pets.html

This unfortunate view is also in error.

This is nothing less than appeasement to growing fascist anti-immigrant rhetoric.

On our blog.

https://www.dsanorthstar.org/blog/re-dsa-statement-on-anti-immigrant-violence

Here are ways you can join with other North Star members in building this electoral effort.

** North Star: Defeat MAGA/Fight for Democracy Action Opportunities
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We propose that DSA members and others participate in the effort to defeat the growing anti fascist movement as advanced by the Republican – MAGA movement and the 2024 effort to elect Donald Trump as President .