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FeliciaReyesSecondEssay 3 - 25 May 2022 - Main.RubiRodriguez
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It is strongly recommended that you include your outline in the body of your essay by using the outline as section titles. The headings below are there to remind you how section and subsection titles are formatted. | | | The question should not be whether these young people are worthy of protection, but rather how we can protect them. Unfortunately, not protecting them hurts more than just the individual, it can also have drastic consequences on both the family and community at large. | |
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Felicia, thank you for sharing your thoughts on this topic. As you and I have discussed, Freedom U was an incredible program that stepped in to care for undocumented youth in Georgia. The 'model minority' narrative often used in immigrant rights activist circles, however, creates a detriment to the greater cause of racial justice, and I am really glad you pointed that out. I learned of Operation Matador back when I was working at the Young Center (which I'll also be interning with this summer), and similar to what you said, kids are being targeted by ICE officials based on phony evidence and racist biases. | | | | |
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> | Reading your essay also made me think about something I observed growing up in Georgia. There are many ways in which crimmigration directly impacts communities of color, but I feel that it has not reached a level of public awareness enough for immigrant and Black communities to see the parallels. In my home state, for example, there has been gradual progress of immigrant communities and Black American activists working together. But it has taken some time because of the South's reckoning with its segregationist past. Immigrants were perceived as an inconvenience to the already tumultuous racial relations in the state, and non-Black immigrants often bring with them anti-Black sentiments. My hope is that, through the expansion of scholarship on crimmigration and more attorneys in the South focusing on that intersection, new and stronger efforts are created to raise public awareness on the inextricable connection between the immigration and criminal legal systems.
- Rubí
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