NEW YORK, CMC – Caribbean and different immigrant advocacy teams in New York have expressed outrage over the outcomes of the USA Presidential Elections on Tuesday, fearing the worst with the election of former President Donald J. Trump.
Trump, who defeated Caribbean-American Vice President Kamala Harris, the daughter of retired Jamaican-born economist Dr. Donald Harris, allegedly vowed on the marketing campaign path to start deporting immigrants on day one, on his inauguration day on Jan. 20, 2025.
“We’re outraged and heartbroken by the outcomes of the election,” mentioned Theo Oshiro, co-executive director of Make the Street New York, an immigrant advocacy group that operates 5 neighborhood facilities in Bushwick, Brooklyn; Jackson Heights, Queens; Port Richmond, Staten Island; Brentwood, Lengthy Island; and White Plains, Westchester County.
“The insurance policies peddled by Donald Trump are racist, misogynistic, and anti-immigrant,” he instructed the Caribbean Media Company (CMC). “We’re clear-eyed concerning the risks posed by a second Trump administration, particularly as he has made vilifying and dehumanizing immigrants the centerpiece of his marketing campaign.
“It’s now as much as us—immigrants, working-class folks, youth, girls, the TGNCIQ neighborhood, and allies—to guard our futures,” Oshiro continued. “We consider in a greater United States. We all know that each one folks, no matter citizenship standing, pores and skin colour, or gender expression, have the precise to respect. Ours is a rustic that—since its earliest days—has served as a haven for anybody looking for a greater life for themselves and their households. To see that worth betrayed is a slap within the face of generations of immigrants who’ve made this nation what it’s.
“And but, whereas we mourn, we discover power in one another. Our dedication to collective motion and social justice doesn’t start or finish on election day,” he mentioned. “We’re organizers, advocates, lecturers, and legal professionals; our work is to show love into energy. Even within the darkest days, that dedication to and perception in our neighborhood compels us to harness our disappointment and concern right into a drive ready to face in opposition to no matter comes our approach.”
Oshiro mentioned that, on Saturday, hundreds of immigrant New Yorkers, union members, and allies will rally and march “to ship a transparent message to Donald Trump: communities are ready to spend the subsequent 4 years working aggressively to guard their future from racist, misogynist and classist assaults.
“Donald Trump made racism, transphobia, misogyny and xenophobia the centerpiece of his marketing campaign,” he mentioned. “New York is essential in setting the tone for what’s to come back. It’s crucial to make clear that New Yorkers will proceed to face collectively in the neighborhood to guard probably the most weak.
“The teams organizing this protest are ready to take Donald Trump at his phrase,” Oshiro added. “The president-elect has promised probably the most important mass deportation on this nation’s historical past, to spherical up hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants into camps on the border, and to separate households.
“At Saturday’s motion, immigrant New Yorkers will come collectively in neighborhood and declare their willpower to combat to guard their freedoms, households, and futures all through the second Trump presidency,” he continued.
On Thursday night, the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an umbrella coverage and advocacy group that represents over 200 immigrant and refugee rights teams all through New York, mentioned member organizations, allies, and immigrant New Yorkers will rally at Foley Sq. in Decrease Manhattan “to face up for immigrants and combat again in opposition to the upcoming threats posed by a second Trump presidency and his proposed Mission 2025 agenda.”
“Mission 2025 seeks to create a nationwide deportation system that may have devastating penalties for a lot of weak communities,” mentioned NYIC Govt Director Murad Awawdeh. “Donald Trump has explicitly threatened to deploy native legislation enforcement to deport all undocumented immigrants within the US – an estimated 11 million folks – together with round 4,500,000 folks residing in New York.
“These insurance policies undermine the rights and dignity of immigrants but additionally purpose to dismantle the ideas of inclusion and justice that outline our nation,” he instructed CMC. “Mass deportations would price New York Metropolis alone billions of {dollars} in financial exercise, lowering the workforce by a whole lot of hundreds of individuals and destroying numerous small companies.
“Trump won’t defeat us. New York wouldn’t be the identical with out the immigrants who’ve constructed and rebuilt our tradition and financial system for generations,” Awawdeh continued. “Donald Trump has demonized our communities at each flip of this election and has promised to tear aside the households which have contributed a lot extra to our nice state than he has. We stopped him earlier than, and we’ll cease him once more.
“Collectively, we’ll combat the fascist President-elect and his racist deportation agenda each step of the way in which – to make sure that our immigrant neighbors, households, and communities will reside in security and with dignity,” he urged. “We should stand collectively to guard our immigrant neighbors and to construct a simply and inclusive future for all New Yorkers.”
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