News flash: Literally minutes after revcom.us received this correspondence, word came that the Trump “Justice” Department announced major immigration raids, arrests and deportations this week in Chicago. The Trump/MAGA fascist regime sent its acting deputy attorney general, Emil Bove, to oversee this repressive move, in what Bove himself called a “national emergency.” In addition to ICE, the fascists are sending the FBI, the DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration), the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives], and U.S. Marshals. Bove also threatened state and city officials, saying there would be “consequences” for those who do not aid in the effort. Chicago is a sanctuary city, which means that the local government is not supposed to cooperate in some significant ways with federal agencies that are charged with deporting immigrants. In particular, local authorities are not allowed to inform ICE, or hand over to ICE, undocumented people who are arrested and detained in jail. And police are not allowed to ask for or record citizenship status when stopping or arresting them. But the sanctuary city status does not prevent federal agents from conducting raids and mass deportations in the city.
Join the revcomcorpschi on the ground NOW as ICE raids begin in Chicago
Join the revcomcorpschi on the ground NOW as ICE raids begin in Chicago
A hail storm of executive orders signal an all-out war on immigrants and sanctuary cities. This is not a time to let our guard down or be paralyzed by fear. This is a time to step up our vigilance, organization, and resistance.
The Revcom Corps for the Emancipation of Humanity has been and will continue organizing patrols of the streets of Chicago to observe ICE activity and defend the rights and lives of immigrants.
As we said at the beginning of the week:
The Trump/MAGA fascists want to make an example out of this sanctuary city: to break the resolve of decent people who would consider opposing them; to break legal protections and open the way for more massive round ups; and to serve as a battering ram for a fuller fascist offensive.
We call on all decent and justice loving people to join with us in making a different example of this city: Of people finding their courage in righteous, fierce opposition to these deportations, and aiming to move millions in collective action to make it so Trump cannot govern the country and implement his fascist program.
We declare:
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!
This Whole System Is Rotten and Illegitimate. We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System.
NO ICE RAIDS!
NO MASS DEPORTATIONS!
TODOS SOMOS ILEGALES! WE ARE ALL ILLEGALS!
Revcom.us received the following correspondence from a member of THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity:
Chicago is ground zero of Trump and Homan's fascist threats to mass deport immigrants. They want to make an example out of Chicago. We have to make it an example of people standing up to say: NO! In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America!
THE REVCOM CORPS For The Emancipation Of Humanity has been and will continue organizing patrols of the streets of Chicago to observe ICE activity and defend the rights and lives of immigrants.
Early morning, the day after Trump's inauguration, in sub-zero temperatures in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago: REVCOM CORPS national spokesperson Noche Diaz, Chicago REVCOM CORPS leader Leo Pargo, and Little Village community organizer Baltazar Enriquez.
Lapis with @revcomcorpschi patrolling Little Village in Chicago for possible ICE Trucks/Raids on our immigrant brothers and sisters. This is what people need to be part of across the country!
Some of the news coverage from our rally and car caravan in Little Village, Chicago. DM @RevcomCorpsChi to join the people's patrols to defend the rights and lives of immigrants!
In the name of humanity, we refuse to accept a fascist America!
This whole system is rotten and illegitimate. We need and we demand: a whole new way to live, a fundamentally different system.
** CORRECTION to the news coverage: we are revolutionary communists, emancipators of humanity, followers of Bob Avakian and the New Communism... not "community organizers"
The Trump/MAGA fascists want to make an example out of this sanctuary city: to break the resolve of decent people who would consider opposing them; to break legal protections and open the way for more massive roundups; and to serve as a battering ram for a fuller fascist offensive.
We call on all decent and justice-loving people to join with us in making a different example of this city: of people finding their courage in righteous, fierce opposition to these deportations, and aiming to move millions in collective action to make it so Trump cannot govern the country and implement his fascist program.
We declare:
In the Name of Humanity, We Refuse to Accept a Fascist America!
This Whole System Is Rotten and Illegitimate. We Need and We Demand: A Whole New Way to Live, a Fundamentally Different System!
NO ICE RAIDS!
NO MASS DEPORTATIONS!
TODOS SOMOS ILEGALES! WE ARE ALL ILLEGALS!