Intervista alle fondatrici di Black Lives Matter

Opal Tometi addressed the United Nations General Assembly at the High Level Thematic Debate on Human Rights.

The Black Alliance for Just Immigration, the nation’s only black-led immigrant rights organization, were joined by a coalition of immigrant rights, faith, racial justice and human rights leaders at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday October 20th for a sign-on letter delivery and press conference to demand that DHS reverse the September 22 policy directive resuming deportations to Haiti. Following the devastation of Hurricane Matthew, the coalition, initiated by the 50 member Black Immigration Network, called on DHS to return to humanitarian parole admittance for Haitian migrants crossing at the southern U.S. border and release the nearly 2,000 Haitians migrants currently detained across the country.