Immigrant Rights
The new year has opened with a vast escalation of the attack on immigrants. The Trump administration terminated Temporary Protected Status for more than a quarter-million immigrants from El Salvador, apprehended hundreds of undocumented immigrants in mass workplace raids, and is using thousands of undocumented youth enrolled in the DACA program as a bargaining chip for funding to build a wall along the U.S. Southern border with Mexico. The Democratic Party paved the way for Trump’s mass deportation program during the Obama administration and is now seeking a deal with Trump on a further crackdown. "If the president wants to work with us to make sure we have strong border security," declared Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, "let’s do that." Neither the courts nor the Democratic Party can be trusted to protect immigrants. Only the power of the working class — united across race and nationality — can block the drive to destroy the lives of hundreds of thousands of immigrant workers living in the U.S. Event is in SSB 414.