No One Is Illegal - Ottawa wishes to express the deepest sympathy to the
families of Michael Brown and Eric Garner who are just two of the many Black people (including children) who have been killed by police in the
past year. The violence perpetrated on Black lives by the police and
other white supremacist institutions in the United States show the
endemic role of anti-black racism in the criminal justice system. The
same anti-black racism in Canada lead to the death of Jermaine Carby by
the Peel Regional Police on September 24 and the subsequent lack of
accountability by the police to his family's questions about his death.
There is a long history of police violence towards Black lives in Canada.
We stand with you in outrage and demand justice.
Anti-black
racism extends beyond policing practices to border and immigration
enforcement, where Black migrants and refugees have become the targets
of expulsion and attack. Canadian immigration policies devalue Black
lives by deporting refugees into unsafe situations, tearing apart
families, and uprooting lives they have established here in Canada. The
moratorium on deportations to Haiti and Zimbabwe was recently ended,
which cruelly exposes at least 3500 people to potential removal in the
coming years, if not earlier.
We express our collective
solidarity with Black people resisting the repressive and brutal
practices of the Canadian state whether it's in our communities or at
their borders.
We stand with you and renew our commitment to anti-racist resistance.
