A-Infos (en) US, Minnesota: RNC-WC Statement on ICE Raids

The RNC Welcoming Committee- a group of Twin Cities-based anarchists and 
anti-authoritarians formed to organize resistance to the 2008 Republican 
National Convention in St. Paul- stands firmly with immigrant communities in 
opposing the recent wave of nativist repression led by the Department of 
Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) branch.
To those people impacted by the raids, to those people resisting this new wave 
of anti-immigrant activity: we would like to offer our bodies and our 
infrastructure in whatever way is most constructive. As community turnout on 
May 19th demonstrated, you are not alone. We are always ready and willing to 
support you in your struggle for justice; we maintain a politics of solidarity, 
and believe we have common ground with all targets of State and systemic 
repression.

To ICE and the Minneapolis Police Department: We want to make clear our 
opposition to the raids that occurred in South Minneapolis last weekend, to all 
raids, and to this system that denies certain people and their families their 
basic right to survival. We condemn the practices of both ICE and the MPD, 
recognizing that the raids weren’t a break with policy so much as a 
continuation of the long-standing law enforcement tradition of terrorizing 
communities, for the sake of maintaining an unjust social order. Our 
communities have always been terrorized by law enforcement, whatever their 
initials; this terror is furthered daily, on the streets, in our workplaces, 
even in our homes. We know that it will continue- tomorrow, next week, at the 
RNC in 2008, and into the future- as long as our communities are not able to 
sustain and defend themselves. Thus, we are committed to building alternatives 
that render law enforcement agencies obsolete, and in the meantime to resisting 
State terror however it manifests itself, by whatever means are available to us.

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