🗣 'This movement demands not only the abolition of prisons and the police, but also the abolition of ICE, Customs and Border Protection, and all agencies that target racialized populations through detention and death.' –BarbaraSostaita
It is not enough to protect “upstanding” DACA recipients. We must imagine abolitionist societies in which crossing a border is not justification for detention, assault, and death. We must divest from policing.
Activist and feminist scholar Angela Davis teaches that abolition is not only about dismantling violent institutions, but about rebuilding and reimagining freer worlds. In her classic 2005 book,, Davis proposes that abolition is experimental and speculative; it conjures relationships outside of systems of domination and exclusion. The immigrant justice movement has to dream bigger.
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