Garrison Davis

Because if we just blow each other's shit up because people assume that migrant communities have somehow not been advocating for themselves and each other for centuries...

then we're not going to have time to organize because we're going to be dealing with that shit.

And I've seen that so much just personally, right?

Like having been involved for some time in migrant advocacy and seeing folks like pop in and tell us how to do everything.

It's tiresome.

I understand that you'll want to help.

But yeah, if this is something that like you're organizing around, super easy to find those organizations to be like, how can I help?

Yeah.

And it's also such a good, like this fight in particular is such a good vehicle for fighting for abolition overall.

As someone who's been saying abolish ICE for years, it is amazing to see how much traction that phrase has gotten, especially over the last six months.

And

We can't just be fighting against preventing new ICE facilities.

We need to be fighting for shutting down all ICE facilities and for abolishing ICE as an institution.

We've been around before ICE, and we will be around after ICE.

As an agency, ICE has only been around since 2003.

Sure, there was a predecessor, there was the INS, but I mean, it didn't operate in nearly the type of way that ICE does now as this, you know, law enforcement agency.

And even before Trump, like, ICE was still a really, you know, horrible, like, horrible agency.

And so, yeah, I think it's important to continue to, you know, point these things out while also, you know, welcoming people into the fight and pushing them farther.

Yeah, I think that's really important.

Like, I think we have to rebut the assumption that this is an aberration and we can fix it and go back to normal because normal was bad and you just couldn't see it because it wasn't.