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LGBTQ Southerners Join the National Day of Action to End Deportation

Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is bringing the call of the national Not1More campaign to four locations in the South on Saturday, April 5th.

Atlanta, GA, rally and march will kick off Saturday April 5th @ 10AM at the GA Capitol Bldg, Downtown Atlanta (on Washington St) and we will walk to the ICE offices (Spring Street). More info can be found on the Facebook event HERE

Harrisonburg, VA, rally and march will begin on Saturday April 5th @ 4PM on the Downtown Court Square and we will march to the local jail (South Liberty Street). More info can be found on the Facebook event HERE

Durham & Raleigh, NC, Love Without Borders truck will begin @ 1PM at Durham Plaza Shopping Center, will move to the Durham Police Station @ 2PM and rally will begin @ 4PM at La Villa Latina at 421 Chapanoke Rd., Raleigh.

Birmingham, AL, #Not1More Teach-In weaving together the movements for Racial, Immigrant, and LGBTQ justice begins @ 1PM. Location TBA. More info can be found on the Facebook event HERE

SONG is part of the growing number of local, regional, and national actions where people are putting their bodies on the line to create pressure on the highest levels of the government. As a Southern regional LGBTQ organization we know that the LGBTQ community in the South is increasingly a majority people of color community and the South is rapidly growing home for new immigrants.

We take these actions for our people and the liberation movement we are advancing, for the 267,000 undocumented LGBTQ immigrant people living in the U.S. and for all of us who are terrorized daily by the policing of our bodies because of our race, gender, sexuality, or citizenship status.

Along with these actions, SONG members, Angel Hernandez-Gomez and Cecilia Sáenz Becerra, are participating in the Blue Ribbon Commission, an independent review process of the Obama Administration’s deportation enforcement policies by people whose lives are directly affected by them.

We are calling on Obama to use the power of his office to take concrete, bold, and necessary actions to end our people’s detentions and deportations now.

What Can the President Do without Congressional Approval?

1. Expand DACA (Deferred Action) to adults
2. End the “Secure Communities” Act that criminalizes immigrants and threatens public safety
3. Rescind all 287(g) agreements that allow local law enforcement to act as agents of immigration
4. Revise the Morton Memos to stop classifying people as “high priority” or “criminal aliens” basedon immigration violations and minor criminal offenses
5. End Operation Streamline which criminalizes migrants while private immigration detentioncenters make massive profits

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