Tessa Petit, Executive Director of the Florida Immigrant Coalition, condemned the Supreme Court's decision to terminate the CHNV humanitarian parole program, jeopardizing the legal status of over 500,000 migrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela. During a press conference, Petit criticized the deportation tactics of the Trump administration, asserting that they are driven by racism and xenophobia. She appealed to past immigrant generations to support current ones and warned that failure to act could make them next on the government’s targeting list.
"I've realized that while we try to be politically correct, lives are being torn apart. We've become a quota... just to satisfy an inhumane drive rooted in... racism, xenophobia and white supremacy."
"To the American people, I say this: It's us now, but your turn will come. If you don't look, speak, or act a certain way, your turn will come..."
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