THIS IS FUCKING RIDICULOUS
BRUJAS ARE STUDENTS AND DROPOUTS, MUTTS AND MULATTOS, ADULT CHILDREN OF SINGLE PARENTS, FAGS, WHORES, PRISONERS, BLACK PEOPLE, SKATEBOARDERS, CREATORS, NATIVES, DESCENDENTS OF IMMIGRANTS AND SETTLERS. WE ARE WORKERS. WE SPEAK IN ACCENTS DIFFERENT FROM OUR FAMILIES AND FROM EACH OTHER. WE PROTECT AND SUSTAIN EACH OTHER AT ALL COSTS, AND OUR DREAMS ARE NOT AMERICAN.
ICE was established in 2003 as part of the Homeland Security Act to “protect public safety and national security” post 9/11. This aim has been used as copy to fund the criminalization and incarceration of racialized people. Specifically, ICE restricts movement into and within the US, reifying colonial borders in the U.S., Mexico, and Central America as enforcement is pushed south.
We refuse to abide by the logic of borders, and commit ourselves to freedom of movement for all.
BRUJAS stands against the separation of families with the explicit qualification of ending carceral capitalism. The separation of families will continue so long as the militarized border and the class of citizenship restrict our travel. The current administration has authorized the immediate detention of migrant families at the border, and ICE raids leading to mass arrests, detention, and deportation. As a result, detention facilities have increased in number and capacity across the country, with Wall Street’s investment in detention increasing more than 900 percent.*
The state has material interest in restricting our movements to only those useful to the reproduction of capital and alienation of labor.
BRUJAS may represent self-determination, but our resistance is often reduced to the aleatory transit of the skateboard, or to style as a method of self-representation. We refuse to limit our politics to aesthetic production, and demand rigorous political action and attention to enact systemic change. Our demand for the abolition of police and prisons is alive in our demand for the abolition of ICE and the immediate closure of immigrant detention facilities.