the alt-right movement is building the infrastructure to divide and disappear our immigrant and Native communities from public life. One key strategy to stamping us out is to enact a vast web of violent legislation aimed at increasing racial profiling and policing of Black and brown people in the very places we call home, from Texas’s notorious Senate Bill 4 to Georgia’s HB 1105 to Oklahoma’s HB 4156 to Iowa’s SB 2340 to Arizona’s HCR 2060, all of which contain the same intent of racial terror formerly enshrined in Arizona’s original “show me your papers” law known as SB 1070.
As directly impacted undocumented immigrants and Native people, we know we belong. We call these lands home. Our communities have deep roots that intertwine throughout time—some of us were born on these lands since time immemorial, and some of us moved here, forced to overcome state-led violence, genocide, climate disaster, shame, theft, and erasure.
