We’re dropping our joint report “Criminalizing Blackness: An Analysis of the Impacts of the 1994 Crime Bill and the 1996 Immigration Bill on Black People” with our partners at UndocuBlack, BAJI, and Law for Black Lives. A question that every Black immigrant advocate has been asked at one point or another is how the U.S. criminal injustice system impacted the U.S. immigration system. And the answer is always: “In every way possible.”
Read the “Criminalizing Blackness” Report
In the report, we take a close look at how the 1994 “Crime Bill” paved the way for the 1996 Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act. We must understand the expansive ripple effect these bills have had on criminal and immigration systems in this country, this knowledge gives us the tools to dismantle what harms us. We cover the many ways they’re still impacting our communities today and what could be done to address the anti-Blackness in both our criminal legal system and civil immigration system.
Plus ICYMI– Last week we brought together many of the contributors to this report, experts across these fields, for a great discussion breaking down the report’s findings and what changes we believe must be made to address the harms these bills inflicted upon our people. Watch the powerful conversation here:
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