Frente Contra Las Redadas del Condado de Ventura (Front Against the Raids - Ventura County) is a community-based collective formed in response to the DHS-ICE (Department of Homeland Security-Immigration and Customs Enforcement ) campaign of raids , detentions, checkpoints, and deportations.
The Migra campaign entails a military-style approach and mass-deportations aimed at terrorizing our communities, in step with Operation ENDGAME (read the full report HERE ) , an ambitious project aimed at uprooting 12 million undocumented workers. In the words of Migra/ICE terrorists, the aim is to brutally "“remove all removable aliens"!
This inhumane and rabid assault on human rights is not a simple question of simply enforcing policies that "are already on the books" - it is an escalated policy of socio-ethnic cleansing applied to our communities , a siege targeting working class and Raza families.
FCR-VC is a community initiative, receiving no corporate funds and having no ties to those in power who are committing these assaults. Only an organized, broadly-based, united local initiative can advance our effort towards community self-defense and security in the face of violent efforts to deprive us of our work, our shelter, our families.
We seek to engage this struggle through the documentation of human rights violations and the formation of rapid response networks based in the barrios and workplaces - eventually spanning Moorpark to Santa Paula, La Colonia to Fillmore, and every corner of our county.
Through building this infrastructure we can ensure the community's awareness, preparedness, and ability to stand up and fight for its dignity. We have the strength to determine our own future, this just requires organized struggle!
May 1, International Workers' Day 2008: March for Dignity