SAN DIEGO, CMC – The San Diego, California-based immigrant advocacy group, Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), has referred to as for justice for Black and Brown refugees, because it honors the “power, dignity and resilience” of the greater than 100 million folks across the globe who’ve been forcibly displaced.
“As a corporation rooted within the protection of Black migrants’ rights, we use today to shine a light-weight on the systemic injustices and racial disparities that proceed to form immigration insurance policies—particularly in america,” HBA Govt Director Guerline Jozef informed the Caribbean Media Company (CMC) on World Refugee Day on Friday.
“World Refugee Day shouldn’t be solely a time to recognise the braveness of these in search of security, but additionally a second to confront the racial hypocrisy embedded in our international asylum programs,” she added. “It’s deeply troubling that in america, we have now seen asylum just about dismantled for Black and Brown refugees from Haiti, Cameroon, Venezuela, and throughout the International South—whereas on the identical time, white South Africans are being welcomed below the pretense of a so-called genocide. This isn’t immigration coverage. It’s white supremacist statecraft.”
Jozef stated that, below the Trump administration in america, “sweeping asylum bans and merciless deterrence methods have criminalized folks of African, Caribbean, and Latin American descent who’re fleeing political instability, gang violence, and local weather disasters.
“In the meantime, right-wing narratives have manufactured a disaster in South Africa to justify importing white South African households as so-called ‘refugees,’ regardless of no credible proof of genocide,” she stated.
In his message on World Refugee Day 2025, United Nations Excessive Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, stated the day was not solely to honor the braveness and resilience of hundreds of thousands of individuals all over the world who’re compelled to flee warfare, violence, and persecution, nevertheless it was additionally “a second to sound an alarm on their behalf.
“Report numbers of males, girls, and kids – over 122 million folks worldwide – have been uprooted from their houses, however their means to seek out security and assist is threatened as by no means earlier than,” he warned. “To make a determined place worse, brutal cuts to humanitarian support are choking off help, threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people that desperately need assistance.
“At this crucial juncture, it’s important that we reaffirm our solidarity with refugees – not simply with phrases however with pressing motion,” Grandi added. “Now greater than ever, we should stand with refugees to maintain alive their hopes of a greater future.
“This World Refugee Day and daily, governments, establishments, corporations, and people can show that by serving to these caught up in mindless conflicts, we transfer in direction of higher stability, humanity, and justice for us all,” he continued. “If we accomplish that, I can promise you that refugees will carry all their braveness, spirit, and ingenuity to the duty of making a greater, brighter tomorrow.”
