From Will Coley, immigration activist:
At Netroots Nation last week, ten of us, including several undocumented DREAM students, wore navy blue shirts and fastened paper ICE badges and patches to our hats and shirts with masking tape. Saying that we were enforcing a new law in “Native American lands,” we stopped anyone who looked “European” and let all others pass without hindrance. Many people were flustered by the confrontation, but most everyone got the joke.
If our action offended anyone and resulted in thirty seconds of frustration, that was the point. As Americans, we should all be offended by actual laws like Arizona’s SB1070 that harass and profile communities 24 hours a day. It wasn’t about preventing Netroots participants from getting their lunch. Profiling and injustice is what we wanted folks to think about. This week, we’re calling on everyone to join national actions to oppose this law. Find out more at Alto Arizona.
