Gerald Lenoir - Black Alliance for Just Immigration
By: Hub Intern
Posted: May 28 08
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This interview was conducted by a fellow participant at the US Human Rights Network National conference in Chicago April 17th-20th, 2008.
Gerald Lenoir discusses his work with The Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
The mission of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration is to engage African Americans and other communities in a dialogue that leads to actions that challenge U.S. immigration policy and the underlying issues of race, racism and economic inequity that frame it.
BAJI’s goal is to develop a core group of African Americans who are prepared to actively support immigrant rights and to build coalitions with immigrant communities and immigrant rights organizations to further the mutual cause of economic and social justice for all.
BAJI supports an immigration policy with the following features:
•A fair path to legalization and citizenship for undocumented immigrants
•No criminalization of undocumented workers immigrants or their families, friends and service providers
•Due process, access to the courts and meaningful judicial review for immigrants
•No mass deportations, indefinite detentions or expansion of mandatory detentions of undocumented immigrants
•The strengthening and enforcement of labor law protections for all workers, native and foreign born
•No use of local or state government agencies in the enforcement of immigration laws
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