Council Member Alexa Avilés implored New Yorkers on Friday to face in defiance of native immigrants as ICE enforcement operations ramp up throughout the nation.
Photograph by Dean Moses
Council Member Alexa Avilés implored New Yorkers on Friday to face in defiance of native immigrants as ICE enforcement operations ramp up throughout the nation.
The decision to motion got here at an anti-ICE rally on the steps of Metropolis Corridor on Jan. 16 that noticed the Chair of the Committee on Immigration demand residents protest in opposition to federal officers.
“We know that New York City is an immigrant city with a population of almost 40% immigrants. This harm that is being brought by this rogue agency is not only economically destabilizing our country, it is upending our democracy, and we need everyone to fight back against this fascism,” Avilés charged. “I am so proud to stand here with these New Yorkers and implore all my fellow New Yorkers to organize, to protect your neighbors, because this is only the beginning, and when we see that militarization is occurring and is violent against not only US citizens, but anyone that comes in its path.”
Fellow Council Member Julie Received additionally stood alongside Avilés, non secular leaders, and advocates, the place she additionally denounced ICE exercise in New York and the affect it has had on immigrant households.
The occasion, organized by Palms Off NYC, Vocal-NY, and extra, aimed to not solely denounce ICE but additionally condemn President Trump for what they cite as continued escalation in opposition to the immigrant group and the protesters, together with the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month.Photograph by Dean Moses
“We’ve had countless cases day after day that walk into my office and say: ‘Please, my child has been going to school here for the last three years, we want to stay, please. I’m a US citizen, but my mother is not. Will you help me find a way?’ We have to see the humanity in those who make up our economy,” Received mentioned. “Enough is enough. We will protect ourselves against any fascist government. The President of the United States, Donald Trump, is not my president, and we will continue to fight, as elected officials on the state level, on the city level, to say this is a sanctuary city, and everybody has the right to be here.”
The occasion, organized by Palms Off NYC, Vocal-NY, and extra, aimed to not solely denounce ICE but additionally condemn President Trump for what they cite as continued escalation in opposition to the immigrant group and the protesters, together with the killing of Renee Good in Minneapolis earlier this month. Standing beside these holding indicators studying “fight fascism,” Hannah Stauss of Palms Off NYC echoed Avilés in a name to motion.
“We all heard the poem that they came after the immigrants, and you didn’t stand up because you weren’t one. Well, they’re also going after the mothers. They’re going after the neighbors. They’re going after the people driving down the street. Authoritarians follow the same playbook every time,” Stauss mentioned.
