At our panel "Black and Brown Communities United" at #1uMLK, I talked about Latino anti-blackness—focused on the immigrant rights movement.
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Anyway, immigrant rights movement counts sanctuary cities as a huge win; it makes it so that cops can't ask for people's immigration status.
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There are lots and lots of sanctuary cities. You've heard of some of them, like Los Angeles and New York.
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There's another city in which people worked to create a sanctuary city, which you may have also heard of: Sanford, Florida.
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Let's think about this: Creating a sanctuary city protects people who look like George Zimmerman from questions about legal status.
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(And no, George Zimmerman isn't white. He's a conveniently German last name, but he'd be a target for racial profiling in places like Ariz.)
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So people in places like Sanford, Florida, worked to create a sanctuary city for brown people—but not for black people. Think about that.
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This isn't to say that brown people aren't fuct with by cops. Of course we are. But creating sanctuary cities tries to mitigate that.
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And also keep in mind that it's not just brown undocumented immigrants who win with sanctuary cities—it's also US-born brown Latinos.
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But, by ignoring that black immigrants even exist, and by failing to put black immigrants at the center of the immigrant rights movement ...
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... we wind up with sanctuary cities that say they value and protect brown lives. But not black ones.
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What does it means to have a city where people will work to protect brown folks from deportation but not protect black folks from death?
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It means we wind up with places like Sanford, Florida.
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What would it mean, then, to center black people when it comes to immigration?
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