New York
March remembers 400 killed by INS policies
New York anti-racists, led by the Coalition for the Human
Rights of Immigrants, rallied on Nov. 2 outside the Immigration
and Naturalization Service office to mark the "Day of the
Dead." They marched in protest for the over 400 people who died
while trying to enter the United States in the last year. They
also protested U.S. immigration policies that deny people the
right to enter the country safely and with dignity.
Demonstrators said that U.S. immigration policies force
people to take more dangerous routes. People drown, die of
dehydration or exposure to heat or cold, in car crashes or are
run over by trains. Others suffer suffocation in sealed
containers or are murdered outright by Border Patrol agents and
vigilantes. They die in rivers and deserts along the Mexican
border, crossing the Florida straits, or while trying to cross
the border from Canada.
Protesters carried signs bearing the names of these INS
victims. Speakers emphasized the importance of continuing to
fight back against the INS and for immigrants' rights, because
there are no borders in the workers' struggle.
--Anne
Pruden
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