Mobilization resists xenophobic and anti-Black attacks

August 28 — Over 100 community members and militant activists, representing over 40 organizations, flooded Foley Square in downtown Manhattan to protest the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling allowing President Donald Trump to terminate Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitian and Syrian migrants. This decision removes a major judicial roadblock for the Department of Homeland Security’s war against migrant workers, their family members and communities.

The demonstration was initiated by various Haitian community organizations, such as Rasanbleman Pou Ayiti, Komokoda and Haitian Women for Haitian Refugees. The Haitian community is being specifically targeted by the Trump administration for detention and deportation. From Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raiding Haitian communities throughout the country to Haitians in Ohio being forced to wear ankle monitors and report to ICE offices regularly, the anti-Black and xenophobic character of the war being waged against Haitian communities in the United States is quite clear.

Yet, instead of being intimidated and cowed into silence by this wave of state terrorism, anti-imperialists, students, workers and members of various migrant communities came together to denounce the continuing ICE and Customs and Border Protection raids. They demonstrated solidarity with the Haitian community and all migrant communities currently under siege by the security forces of the U.S. government. The call to struggle until ICE and CBP are abolished and there is a general amnesty for all migrants in the U.S. was resounding.

Workers World Party, as one of the endorsing organizations, was on the ground and will continue to struggle in solidarity with the Haitian community — against both imperialist aggression targeting Haitian sovereignty and the racist and xenophobic attacks facing the diaspora communities now in the U.S.

The ongoing war against migrant communities is a class war imbued with anti-Black racism and bigotry toward all immigrants of color. This has been integral to the founding and development of U.S. settler-imperialist policy. Only through unity among the working class and the oppressed nationalities in the United States will the plans of the imperialist bourgeoisie be thwarted and the ruling class itself be liquidated.

Foley Square is just the beginning!