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To: National Bail Fund Network organizations
Pay bail for Marissa
Marissa, a trans woman, can’t afford to pay bail and is in custody of ICE. National Bail Fund Network posses the funds. After 2020 protest of the police killing of George Floyd, the National Bail Fund Network Organization had received over
$75 million.
We urge National Bail Fund Network to pay Marissa’s bail.
Why is this important?
Imagine you were fleeing violence, or seeking to reunify with your relatives in the United States. You are crossing the border when the US government arrests you. Despite your age, you are treated like a criminal, locked in detention, and separated from your family. Not only must you endure conditions that the federal government itself has found inhumane, but you must also defend yourself in immigration court alone-because the United States does not recognize your right to a lawyer even if you cannot find one.
This is the reality that hundreds of thousands of adults and children face each day. It is the result of an immigration system designed to dehumanize and criminalize people, not welcome them with dignity.
The US immigration system is an arrest-to-deportation pipeline rooted in racism.
Our nation’s immigration laws were created and founded explicitly in racism and xenophobia. The past three decades have been marked by an ever-expanding immigration detention system, and an immigration enforcement regime that criminalizes people of color and funnels people from the criminal legal systems into detention and deportation. As a result, our immigration system serves as a form of “double punishment” for people who pass from one legal system to another, compounding the racial disparities and injustices in both. Just as Black people are more likely than white people to be targeted by police, Black immigrants are also disproportionately vulnerable to immigration enforcement. And since one-in 10 Black people living in the United States are also immigrants, we’ve created an arrest-to-deportation pipeline that is ripping families apart and putting people’s lives in danger.
This is the reality that hundreds of thousands of adults and children face each day. It is the result of an immigration system designed to dehumanize and criminalize people, not welcome them with dignity.
The US immigration system is an arrest-to-deportation pipeline rooted in racism.
Our nation’s immigration laws were created and founded explicitly in racism and xenophobia. The past three decades have been marked by an ever-expanding immigration detention system, and an immigration enforcement regime that criminalizes people of color and funnels people from the criminal legal systems into detention and deportation. As a result, our immigration system serves as a form of “double punishment” for people who pass from one legal system to another, compounding the racial disparities and injustices in both. Just as Black people are more likely than white people to be targeted by police, Black immigrants are also disproportionately vulnerable to immigration enforcement. And since one-in 10 Black people living in the United States are also immigrants, we’ve created an arrest-to-deportation pipeline that is ripping families apart and putting people’s lives in danger.