Independent Mass Action Needed
Stop Support for Biden’s War-making and Racism
Asylum for Haitians and all Migrants
Stop Deportations
End Racist Terror and Brutality of ICE and U.S. Border Patrol
Close the Camps, Release Imprisoned Migrants
Repeating the same state violence used against enslaved Africans, U.S. Border Patrol agents near Del Rio, TX have been terrorizing Haitians and other migrants from horseback, using whips to drive desperate families from the border. The Biden administration is also using a so-called “emergency” rule invoked by Trump at the start of the pandemic to enforce mass deportations of asylum seekers.
The agents responsible for these heinous acts must be arrested and jailed for their crimes, and the Border Patrol abolished. Migrants should be met at the border with the support they need, including healthcare, shelter, food, and asylum, not whips in the hands of sadistic, murderous scum.
Biden has done nothing to stop the unending deportations, close the detention centers (concentration camps), or help the thousands of immigrants who have been driven out of their home countries by the U.S. and other imperialist countries. Haiti has faced massive political repression in the wake of the assassination of President Moise (by U.S.-backed agents), as well as devastation and death brought by hurricanes, earthquakes, and COVID.
Border Patrol officials repeat the same sentiments expressed by Kamala Harris and Biden, warning immigrants that if they come to the U.S. they will be deported or detained. Though Biden’s press secretary Psaki feigned outrage when asked about this latest incident of racist violence, these acts stem directly from the official policies of the Biden administration.
Border Patrol, like ICE, is part of the Department of Homeland Security, created after 9/11 to enforce the increasingly repressive laws and policies of every administration since. This agency is a tool of the rich who use terrorism to keep workers–immigrants and not–desperate and willing to work for pennies.
As workers we must stand in solidarity with immigrants from around the world who have been victimized by the policies of U.S. corporations, war profiteers, and governments acting in the interest of the rich. Companies continue to set up shop abroad where they pay slave wages, which are kept low by brutal governments that the U.S. installs and supports.
Why aren’t laws passed to prevent off-shore bank profiteering or to prevent companies from setting up production in countries that pay lower wages or outlaw union organizing? Because the goal of the U.S. government, both Democrats and Republicans, is to lower the living standards of workers globally. The more workers of any country suffer, the more our living standards fall as capitalists aim to pit us workers against each other in a competition to sell our labor. Solidarity is our way to fight back.