[STATEMENT] Stop the Attacks on Immigrants in the United States!

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Written By Miki S

IMA Global Statement on the Forced Mass Deportation and Imprisonment of Immigrants in the United States

February 3rd, 2025

The International Migrants Alliance strongly condemns US President Donald Trump’s fascist crackdown on immigrants in the United States of America (US).

An average of 710 arrests per day are being made under Trump, surpassing the Obama administration when daily arrests averaged 636 in 2013. During his first week in office, Trump signed 10 executive orders on immigration and issued a slew of edicts to carry out mass deportations and imprisonment of immigrants in the US, which included;

  • allowing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to deport people without appearing before an immigration judge;

  • ending a policy to avoid arrests at “sensitive locations,” including schools, hospitals and places of worship;

  • ending the use of the “CBP One” application which allowed migrants to apply for asylum and enter the country on two-year permits with eligibility to work;

  • ending a policy that allowed more than 500,000 people from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela to enter the US on two-year permits if they had a financial sponsor;

  • pledging to end automatic or “birthright” citizenship for children born on U.S. soil;

  • shutting down groups that provide temporary housing, job training and other support for undocumented immigrants, and;

  • forcing legal aid groups to stop work on federal programs that help people in immigration courts and detention centers.

Trump is also using the military to facilitate the detention and transportation of immigrant civilians. Regularised military involvement in civilian law enforcement is a key indicator of a fascist dictatorship. Trump’s totalitarianism also extends outside of the US, threatening countries that resist or refuse his fascist policies. Trump threatened to raise tariffs by 25% on Colombia after President Gustavo Petro refused to allow two military planes to land with deportees in handcuffs and in conditions that were harmful to their dignity. Trump suspended the tariffs only after Petro reversed his decision, once it was agreed that the deportees would be transported by planes provided by the Colombian government, without handcuffs. Starting February 1st 2025, Trump also imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada (at 25%) and on China (at 10%), in trade wars with those countries that will ultimately raise prices on the everyday needs of working people in the US.

As Trump tells immigrants to leave the US, the US refuses to leave the countries where it has more than 800 military bases and deep economic interests. In the same week the immigrant crackdown was executed, Trump pledged to accelerate the ‘clearing out’ of indigenous Palestinians from their homeland to make way for his property development. In the US itself, the US imperialists’ policies are the main causes of spending inflation, loss of income, violence and poverty. Outside of the US, the US imperialists are the number one invader, destroyer, thief and terrorist.

The IMA calls all organisations and institutions around the world to express public solidarity and protest against these fascist attacks against undocumented immigrants in the US. We call on all victims of forced migration and displacement in the US to unite with local community allies against our common enemy, the US State and its warmongering army. Lastly, we call on the United Nations to condemn and stop Trump’s forced deportation program and inhumane treatment of immigrants in the US.

Migrants and immigrants are an integral part of US society, and their absence will only worsen the economic crisis. The IMA also calls on international allies outside of the US to strengthen our fight against US imperialism and fascism in all parts of the world, by continuing to organise and mobilise people against any form of exploitation, oppression or injustice felt by our communities. All forms of organising are imperative to the united global struggle against US imperialism. 

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