Political responses in public discourses pitted ethnic groups against one another
Discussions surrounded “Who has the right to be in the United States to begin with?“
Underscored the complexity of power dynamics surrounding the issue of immigration
Racialized debates in which the immigrant labor force was accused of siphoning mainstream society’s resources
“Americanness” as a racial ideology
Race became a policy matter, to the critics, immigration issues boiled down to a legal question only
Protest organized on International Workers Day which is not a public holiday, to call attention to the issues of human rights, workers rights, and immigrants rights
“The privileging of nationalist politics,” Laura Pulido argues, has allowed the avoidance of “a worker consciousness, especially an international worker consciousness, which could conceivably allow us to develop a radically different attitude toward immigrant workers.” (Heiskanen 2009).
After the rallies in 2006, immigration turned into a “black-and-brown labor affair”, making efforts to turn African American workers against latino/a workers arguing that immigrants were taking African American jobs.
Nativist backlash evaluates “migration from the standpoint of citizens who authorize themselves to debate the question in terms of ‘what is good for the nation’”.
Connecting the 2006 Movement With the 2025 Movement
