A shout out to all the organizations and individuals that have been working to reunite families.
National Bail Out, which has been working on the #FreeBlackMamas campaign to bail black mothers out of pretrial detention and reunite them with their families. Their work addressesthe issue of lower-income people accused of non-violent offenses (guilt not yet proven) languishing in jail for lengthy periods waiting for their trial, while wealthier people accused of more serious crimes can get out of jail while awaiting trial, because of their ability to post bail.
ColorOfChange, part of the National Bail Out coalition. ColorOfChange has also been a leader in the #NoTechForICE protests against family separation at the border.
Black Alliance for Just Immigration, also part of the National Bail Out coalition, whose intersectional work engaging African American and black immigrant communities to organize and advocate for justice flies in the face of the divide-and-conquer narrative of outsiders who spread the false idea that immigrant issues and black issues are separate from each other and compete for attention. These old tactics to prevent communities of color in the Americas from allying with each other date back to the 16th century, when European colonists adopted policies to separate Natives and Africans and use them to fight each other. (See Chapter 3 of "Black Indians" by William Loren Katz.)
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