While on the campaign trail, Biden made promises to the Haitian community to have more fair immigration policies. And yet he may soon be responsible for carrying out the largest mass expulsion of would-be asylum-seekers in recent American history. 

We don’t need to show you the images that surfaced from the US-Mexico border of white Border Patrol officers on horses chasing, yelling, and whipping Haitian asylum seekers to tell you how viscerally it conjures this nation’s not so distant past; visions of violent slave patrols and public lynchings reimagined by modern-day henchmen.

Haitian asylum seekers who have for weeks and months been fleeing toward what they thought was safety, were terrorized, abused, and then deported. Others are being sent to Guantanamo Bay, or back to Mexico where organized crime and collaborators in Mexican security forces routinely prey on migrants - especially Haitians, who are particularly vulnerable because of their skin color.  

Thousands of people, including families and children, will be expelled to Haiti - a country the Administration itself has described as teetering on the brink of collapse, which we know is a result of centuries of imperialism and foreign intervention intent on destabilizing the first Black republic. 

Biden promised us a more humanitarian approach to immigration AND a commitment to racial justice. We demand the Administration follows through on its promises by: 

• Stopping deportations to Haiti
• Granting humanitarian parole to thousands of Black asylum seekers and processing their claims without further delay
• Conducting a thorough investigation into the acts of Border Patrol agents in Del Rio and anti-Black practices throughout the agency
• Halting the treatment we witnessed, and instead employing a humanitarian approach to immigration

It’s time to put an end to anti-Black immigration practices. Seeking asylum is a legal and human right, fundamental to maintaining democracy. It must extend to Black people.

Sign our petition and demand the Biden Administration protects Black migrants today.

Here is the Petition:

Dear President Biden, 

You promised Americans a more humanitarian approach to immigration AND a commitment to racial justice. We demand the Administration follows on its promises through by: 

- Stopping deportations to Haiti
- Granting humanitarian parole to thousands of Black asylum seekers and processing their claims without further delay
- Conducting a thorough investigation into the acts of Border Patrol agents in Del Rio and anti-Black practices throughout the agency
- Halting the treatment we witnessed, and instead employing a humanitarian approach to immigration

While on the campaign trail, you made promises to the Haitian community to have more fair immigration policies. And yet this Administration may soon be responsible for carrying out the largest mass expulsion of would-be asylum-seekers in recent American history. 

Thousands of people, including families and children, will be expelled to Haiti - a country the Administration itself has described as teetering on the brink of collapse - the result of centuries of imperialism and foreign intervention intent on destabilizing the first Black republic. 

In just the past two and a half months, Haiti has seen its president assassinated and weathered a devastating 7.2 magnitude earthquake, all in the middle of a pandemic. 

It’s time to put an end to anti-Black immigration practices. Seeking asylum is a legal and human right, fundamental to maintaining democracy. It must extend to Black people.