A powerpoint workshop on the #not1more deportation campaign by NDLON

1. Not One More Deportation
Workshop
Migrant justice
activists in Chicago,
IL stop a deportation
bus, 2013

2. National Day Laborer Organizing Network
(NDLON)
• national org that works primarily with
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Undocumented youth + allies chain themselves to the entrance
of a detention center in Adelanto, California, 2013
day laborers
works to unify + strengthen member
organizations to develop leadership,
mobilize + organize day laborers in
order to protect and expand their
rights
have several national campaigns:migrant rights: Alto Arizona, Breaking
ICE’s hold
-labor rights: wage theft
-health and safety of day laborers

3. DHS after 9/11
● 1996 IIRIRA and Antiterrorism and Effective
Death Penalty Act
● 287g and Secure Communities
● Department of Homeland Security:
Shift toward militarization, privatization, and
blurring of criminal and immigration law.
● Building a physical border: $90 billion
● Detention Industrial Complex; CCA

4. A Snapshot of Undocumented
America
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Estimated 12 million undocumented immigrants in
US:76% of undocumented immigrants are Latinos
59% of undocumented immigrants are from Mexico
11% of undocumented immigrants are from Asia
20% of the nation’s undocumented immigrants live in
California

5. Why Deportations?
● There is a human cost to the policing
of the immigration crisis:-that cost if often
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our communities who are targeted by these unjust
policies
● Deportations are about fear: Instill fear in our
communities. It’s not necessarily about
deportations, but the fear of them
● US economy needs low-cost labor to survive. If the
US got rid of all undocumented labor in the US, the
economy would collapse.
Separation of families:
-Of the undocumented people with children, 73% of
them have U.S. born children
-About 5.1 million children in 2009 had at least one
parent who was an unauthorized immigrant,
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Deportation is one of the clearest
manifestations of the broken immigration
system
-Lack of just immigration reform. The 2013 bill
called for:
-double the number of border security agents
from 21,000 to 41,000
-700 miles of a new fence across the border
-ramp up Southern border security by $4.5
billion
-maintain secure communities program
-no age cap on DREAM act
Deportations and border enforcement easier
to fund and deal with than coming up with a
bipartisan immigration reform.

6. Who gets deported?

7. How does #not1more challenge
deportations?
“As the immigration debate continues,
#Not1More enters the discussion from the
place that touches people in concrete ways
and can offer tangible relief. By collectively
challenging unfair deportations and inequality
through organizing, art, legislation, and
action, we aim to reverse criminalization,
build migrant power, and create immigration
policies based on principles of inclusion.”
-NDLON
undocumented activists + allies stop a deportation bus in San Francisco,
2013

9. 2 MILLION DEPORTATIONS
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Obama administration has
deported more people than
any president in the history of
the United States
In the coming months, will hit
2 million deportations
Obama needs to take
executive action and put a halt
to deportations!

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AZ HUNGER STRIKE
Began YESTERDAY in front of Phoenix
ICE office. Ends March 3. Organized by
Puente Human Rights Movement
Joint effort from families on the outside
and detainees in the inside risking their
health and punishment from guards.
Anselma’s story: She has been living in in the United
States for 11 years. She and her husband have three
children. Elder Lopez, her oldest son has been in Eloy
Detention Center for over two years. For the last 2 years,
Anselma has been organizing with Puente and advocating for
the release of her son. Anselma has petitioned for the release
of her son and fears that her son will die of he is sent back to
Guatemala. “My son has been in detention for almost 3
years, I am fasting to bring him home. He should not spend
another year in detention, his children and family need him
home.”

11. Arizona Hunger Strikers
“The purpose of this Hunger
Strike is to demand the release
and halt the unnecessary
deportation of our loved ones.
We also wish to expose the
most important missing piece
from this debate, the human
cost caused by the extraction
of members from our
community.”
SIGN THE PETITION!
http://www.notonemoredeportati
on.com/

12. Two Million Too Many: National Day of
Action Against Deportations
We say #Not1More! In 2013, 500 organizations, 30 Congresspeople and
more than 15 direct actions that Shut Down ICE facilities across the
country called on the President to halt deportations and stop the
needless suffering, especially as Congress debates legalization.

13. Gracias:
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Profa Genevieve Negron-Gonzales (UCSF)
NDLON
Puente Human Rights Movement AZ
Jesus Iniguez
Dignidad Rebelde
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