THE KEY ISSUES
ABOLISH ICE
BLOCK THE INDEFINITE DETENTION OF MIGRANT FAMILIES
END FAMILY SEPARATION
SUPPORT DACA + A
CLEAN DREAM ACT NOW
STOP CRIMINALIZATION OF
IMMIGRANT COMMUNITIES
PREVENT + STOP DEPORTATIONS
WIN CITIZENSHIP, PERMANENT PROTECTIONS, + DIGNITY FOR IMMIGRANTS
DEFEAT RACIST, ANTI-IMMIGRANT POLICIES
END THE MUSLIM TRAVEL BAN
THE MERCH
PROCEEDS BENEFIT ORGS FIGHTING FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
GO DEEPER + ACT NOW
Immediate Actions To Take:+
- Call Your Reps To Demand Congress Enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Call Your Reps To Begin the Release of Migrant Families from Detention and End Child Separation
- Take Action on Immigrants' Rights: Relief for Separated Families Now
- Sign the petition to Reunite Every Family Separated Immediately
- Sign the petition to Demand Biden Stop Deportations
- Sign the petition to call on the Biden Administration + Congress to take bold and progressive action that protects immigrants
- Call your reps to Begin the Release of Migrant Families From Detention and End Child Separation
- Call your reps to Demand Congress Enact Comprehensive Immigration Reform
- Sign the petition to Tell ICE: #FreeTheFamilies
- Donate to and subscribe to Familia — an org devoted to immigration justice for queer + trans folx
Organizations To Support + Follow:+
Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:+
- Educate Yourself + Keep Showing Up:
- Start here — #ImmigrationSyllabus
- Articles —
- Five Ways Immigration System Changed After 9/11 by Ted Hesson — ABC News
- How Does It Feel To Be A Problem: Being Young and Arab in America by Moustafa Bayoumi — Wall Street Journal
- Latinos Back Black Lives Matter Protests. They Want Change for Themselves, Too. by Jennifer Medina — NYTimes
- Reading the Polls: Welcome to America? What Americans Say About Immigration by Karlyn Bowman — Forbes
- Real Stories From the Men, Women, and Children Traveling On The Caravan by Paola Mendoza
- Resources to Help You Protect Immigrants by United WE Dream
- The White House Is Quietly Deporting Children by Maira Woltjen
- Top Ten Immigration Myths and Facts — National Immigration Forum
- Top Ten Migration Issues of 2019 — Migration Policy Institute
- Two Moms Share Stories of Migration and Breastfeeding by Sarah Mirk — Bitch Media
- What is Temporary Protected Status? — UndocuBlack
- What Latinx Means To Me by Paola Ramos
- Books —
- American Like Me: Reflections on Life Between Cultures by America Ferrera
- Border Lives: Fronterizos, Transnational Migrants, and Commuters In Tijuana by Sergio R. Chávez
- Borderlands / La Frontera: The New Mestiza by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Dear America: Notes of an Undocumented Citizen by Jose Antonio Vargas
- Domestica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning + Caring in the Shadows of Affluence by Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo
- Fantasy Island: Colonialism, Exploitation, and the Betrayal of Puerto Rico by Ed Morales
- Immigration Matters: Movements, Visions, and Strategies for a Progressive Future by Ruth Milkman, Deepak Bhargava, and Penny Lewis
- Intersectional Chicana Feminisms by Aída Hurtado
- Latinx: The New Force in American Politics and Culture by Ed Morales
- Native Country of the Heart: A Memoir by Cherríe Moraga
- Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
- Sanctuary by Abby Sher Paola Mendoza
- The DREAMers: How the Undocumented Youth Movement Transformed the Immigrant Rights Debate by Walter J. Nicholls
- The Young Lords: A Radical History by Johanna Fernandez
- This Bridge Called My Back by Rosario Morales
- We Are Not From Here by Jenny Torres Sanchez
- We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir by Samra Habib
- Watch —
- Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement — Available for Rent
- Frida — Netflix
- How ICE Helped Spread Coronavirus — NYTimes
- Icebox — HBO
- Jane the Virgin — Netflix
- Living Undocumented — Netflix
- Made In LA — Available for Rent
- The Night Of — HBO
NOTE: Our focus areas are informed by community input. If there is an issue you'd like to see included or would like to share input, please email us at info@the-outrage.com with questions, comments, or concerns on our focus areas. We'd love to hear from you.
This is an incomplete and growing list. Last updated Mar 1, 2021.