Although many organizations do not consider migrant workers abducted in raids by state agencies to be typical “political prisoners,” the political, social, and economic reasons that the state has attacked and arrested migrant laborers and those with questionable legal residency status cannot be ignored.
The context for the raids that have been occuring since 2006 also must never be ignored. A new wave of repression against migrants started in the direct aftermath of giant popular mobilizations of migrants and supporters in the Spring of 2006. These mobilizations made the radical demand to stop the criminalization of those without documentation residing in the United States. We stand in solidarity with all people struggling for collective self determination, and those that have become victims of the state for their documentation status. We envision and work for a borderless society, in which freedom exists for all people, and not just for property.