Surviving the ICE Age

Dear Colleagues and Friends, Our central message, that ICE is an immediate danger to all immigrants, a clear and present danger to all Latin@s and ultimately a threat to American society and its institutions, is increasingly confirmed. A recent Supreme Court ruling and two Trump Administration actions provide compelling motivation for our initiative.    ICE and the Border Patrol are now authorized to carry out ethnic and racial profiling in their sweeps; children can be summarily deported; and national guard and federal forces can be deployed to U.S. cities in support of ICE actions. Some of our fellow citizens have accepted an inhumane, dehumanizing and un-American narrative that criminalizes immigrants and delegitimizes the standing of Latinos in the U.S. Too many of our family members, friends, colleagues and neighbors are oblivious to or find themselves incapacitated by the threat to their wellbeing or are intimidated by the forces arrayed against them. Our objecti...