Status Updates From Border and Rule: Global Mig...

"neoliberalism is characterized by deregulation of financial and trade markets, privatization of public assets and institutions, social service cuts, protection of private property and corporate profits, an ideology of individualism and competition, and enhanced enforcement to coerce labor while policing impoverishment."

"According to BAJI, even though Black immigrants make up 7.2% of the total undocumented population, more than 20% of all migrants in deportation proceedings due to criminal convictions are Black..In an era where the word intersectionality has entered the public lexicon, the immigrant rights movement has failed at it. It is the deeply pervasive nature of anti-Black racism that erases the existence of Black migrants"

"The US–Mexico border must be understood not only as a racist weapon to exclude migrants and refugees, but as foundationally organized through, and hence inseparable from, imperialist expansion, Indigenous elimination, and anti-Black enslavement."

"Our movements must refuse both the vicious far right and the banal liberal center. Racist ethnonation-alism and liberal multiculturalism both serve to uphold racial regimes through a social organization of difference. A proclamation like “Immigrants steal our jobs,” and its rejoinder, “Our economy needs immigrants” treats immigrants as commodities to be traded in capitalist markets and discarded if deemed defective"

Very timely start to this read. Already learning so much! Need an updated version ASAP.