Protest the appearance of Illinois Senator Dick Durbin at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government!
No Conciliation, No Capitulation, No Collaboration with a fascist program of genocidal ethnic cleansing.
The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! Not the Dreamers, Not their families, Not the Immigrants!
Thursday, February 1, 5:30 – 7:00 PM, Outside, 79 JFK Street, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA
Illinois Senator, Dick Durbin, second in command of the Democratic Senate, along with Chuck Schumer, has led the way in a program of conciliation, capitulation and appeasement to the Trump/Pence regime’s genocidal program for “Making America Great White Again” and are now on the verge of a monstrous betrayal of the Dreamers (those undocumented youth who stepped forward to enroll in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program) and their families and the larger immigrant community.
While the details of any potential “deal” between the White House and Congress are not known at this point, previous proposals endorsed by the Democrats (including the “DOA” Graham-Durban Bill) have included massive increases for funding to ICE and “border security”, severe restriction if not elimination of existing immigration programs and even funding for Trump’s notorious border wall. And Durbin and the Democratic leadership have cynically demonstrated their willingness to sacrifice the Dreamers with their quick capitulation to end the government shutdown, despite mass support among progressive people for the shutdown, demanding Dreamer protection. Nothing good can come out of this current round of “negotiations.”
THIS CANNOT BE ALLOWED TO GO DOWN! Stand Up Now for and with the Immigrants
Durbin, Schumer and the Democratic leadership shamefully and criminally have NOT made clear that they consider immigrants—all immigrants—to be fully human beings. They have NOT insisted that immigrants should NOT be insulted, demonized, spied on, lied about, hounded, harassed, arrested, abused, and have their families split up, simply because they were not born in the U.S. They have NOT spoken the truth: that the mass deportations already under way are sending thousands back to incredible hardship, violence and potential death.
No! Instead Schumer, Durbin and the Democratic have gone so far as to offer to fully fund Trump’s border wall, and increase funding for the U.S. military. In return, they hoped to get some kind of deal granting legal status for the 800,000 Dreamers—while basically throwing 11 million undocumented immigrants and millions more legal immigrants under the bus—plus a few concessions on aid for Puerto Rico and on health care.
These are nothing less than calculated acts of conciliation and appeasement to a fascist regime that shows no signs of letting up its relentless assault of “ethnic cleansing” on immigrants especially Black and Brown people. If and when a deal is struck, it will only serve as the new “base line” for the regime’s attacks. They must be exposed, opposed and defeated. Join us in demonstrating our outrage at these actions and our resolve not to be the “Good Germans” in America 2018.
This Nightmare Must End! The Trump/Pence Regime Must Go! In the Name of Humanity, We REFUSE To Accept a Fascist America!
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