Organizers came to the big easy for not an easy task. More than 200 gathered from front-line states facing Arizona-like immigration enforcement policies.
While the world has expressed it's outrage at the racial profiling and injustices seen in Arizona, President Obama moves to spread the same phenomenon through his police/ice collaborations to the entire country by 2013.
As a result, communities in Florida, Virginia, Texas, California, as well as Arizona and other locations convened in New Orleans to identify their commonalities and develop an effort to turn back the tide against criminalization and anti-immigrant enforcement policies.
In the coming months, grassroots groups will confront 1070 copy cat bills and the Arpaio-like sheriffs throughout the country.
"The passage of 1070-like laws and enforcement of 287g policies is an affront to our human dignities and a spear being used to tear our families apart," explains Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "At this conference we heard from young people who who fear that riding in a car as a mixed status family could be seen as a criminal act. We are here because we believe our our full humanity regardless of where we're from and we cannot allow our dignity. "
While the world has expressed it's outrage at the racial profiling and injustices seen in Arizona, President Obama moves to spread the same phenomenon through his police/ice collaborations to the entire country by 2013.
As a result, communities in Florida, Virginia, Texas, California, as well as Arizona and other locations convened in New Orleans to identify their commonalities and develop an effort to turn back the tide against criminalization and anti-immigrant enforcement policies.
In the coming months, grassroots groups will confront 1070 copy cat bills and the Arpaio-like sheriffs throughout the country.
"The passage of 1070-like laws and enforcement of 287g policies is an affront to our human dignities and a spear being used to tear our families apart," explains Pablo Alvarado, director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. "At this conference we heard from young people who who fear that riding in a car as a mixed status family could be seen as a criminal act. We are here because we believe our our full humanity regardless of where we're from and we cannot allow our dignity. "