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IRANIAN STUDENTS CALL TO ACTION AGAINST THE INS FRIDAY!
Protest the INS!
When: Friday, December 27th at noon till 2pm.
Where: 425 I st., NW Washington DC
We condemn the racist and humiliating treatment of Iranians and all other immigrant groups who have been subjected to illegal arrest, deportation, and degrading treatment in the hands of the INS. We demand the immediate release of all detainees, dropping their charges, ending the collection of detailed personal information, and no longer discriminating against immigrants based on their political beliefs, country of origin, ethnicity, or religion.
We have heard from friends and news sources of overcrowded jail cells, some who had been hosed down with cold water, shackled, and others transported to Arizona prisons and when released at night, left in the cold till morning till the next train would take them back to California. The ACLU has found that in most cases, the INS arrested men who were waiting for the completion of their green card applications or had minor visa problems that were caused by the incompetence of the INS itself. "In but one example, the San Diego Union Tribune reported on July 27, 2002 that the agency recently failed to process more than 200,000 change of address forms and then unceremoniously dumped them in the largest underground records facility in the world - an abandoned mine near Kansas City - putting hundreds of thousands at risk of wrongful arrest and deportation for failing to report a change of address."
We resent the INS' persecution of immigrants as second-class citizens arbitrarily arresting, deporting, and mistreating individuals they find 'suspect.' From the Mexican/American border and all across America, we will mobilize our communities to resist these racist policies until we’re treated with the dignity we deserve! We urge the Iranian community and all concerned people to protest and mobilize against these racist policies.
The humiliation suffered by European immigrants a century ago, the Japanese in WW II, and now Middle Easterners is a vicious cycle of institutional and mob-like racism that must be resisted! NO PERSON IS ILLEGAL!! We will not be the pawns for the Bush administration’s xenophobic paranoia in order to justify his genocidal war against Iraq and the homeland security Gestapo.
The men detained after the December 16th registration date are from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and the Sudan. The following countries are targeted for January's registration deadline: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen increasing the numbers of detainees into the tens of thousands according to the ACLU.
‘What better time than now, what better place than here!’
Sponsored by the Iranian Students activist group 16Azar and LeftTurn.
email bt3030-AT-yahoo.com for more info and to get on the listserv.
Where: 425 I st., NW Washington DC
We condemn the racist and humiliating treatment of Iranians and all other immigrant groups who have been subjected to illegal arrest, deportation, and degrading treatment in the hands of the INS. We demand the immediate release of all detainees, dropping their charges, ending the collection of detailed personal information, and no longer discriminating against immigrants based on their political beliefs, country of origin, ethnicity, or religion.
We have heard from friends and news sources of overcrowded jail cells, some who had been hosed down with cold water, shackled, and others transported to Arizona prisons and when released at night, left in the cold till morning till the next train would take them back to California. The ACLU has found that in most cases, the INS arrested men who were waiting for the completion of their green card applications or had minor visa problems that were caused by the incompetence of the INS itself. "In but one example, the San Diego Union Tribune reported on July 27, 2002 that the agency recently failed to process more than 200,000 change of address forms and then unceremoniously dumped them in the largest underground records facility in the world - an abandoned mine near Kansas City - putting hundreds of thousands at risk of wrongful arrest and deportation for failing to report a change of address."
We resent the INS' persecution of immigrants as second-class citizens arbitrarily arresting, deporting, and mistreating individuals they find 'suspect.' From the Mexican/American border and all across America, we will mobilize our communities to resist these racist policies until we’re treated with the dignity we deserve! We urge the Iranian community and all concerned people to protest and mobilize against these racist policies.
The humiliation suffered by European immigrants a century ago, the Japanese in WW II, and now Middle Easterners is a vicious cycle of institutional and mob-like racism that must be resisted! NO PERSON IS ILLEGAL!! We will not be the pawns for the Bush administration’s xenophobic paranoia in order to justify his genocidal war against Iraq and the homeland security Gestapo.
The men detained after the December 16th registration date are from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya and the Sudan. The following countries are targeted for January's registration deadline: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Eritrea, Lebanon, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Qatar, Somalia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen increasing the numbers of detainees into the tens of thousands according to the ACLU.
‘What better time than now, what better place than here!’
Sponsored by the Iranian Students activist group 16Azar and LeftTurn.
email bt3030-AT-yahoo.com for more info and to get on the listserv.
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