National Museum of American History | Communities in Danger | Mayra Stefania Arteaga on the Criminalization of Immigration @SmithsonianAmHistory | Uploaded February 2021 | Updated October 2024, 3 hours ago.
Mayra Stefania Arteaga works to protect Mecklenburg County, North Carolina residents from deportation. . Mayra Stefania's advocacy work was shaped by 287g—a small clause in the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act that permits sheriffs to notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) whenever they detain a person. In many places, 287g means that a random traffic stop, a broken taillight, jaywalking, or simply looking “Latino” can trigger a deportation pipeline—regardless of whether a person has broken the law. In 2018 Mayra Stefania successfully organized to defeat 287g in her county.
Teachers! Educators! Seekers of knowledge! Connect past and present through the Learning Lab to discover how issues impacting undocumented communities have deep roots in the nation’s history. In Communities in Danger, we explore the Smithsonian’s collections to understand the history of how groups have been criminalized in the United States. From the Trail of Tears to Japanese internment to the federal incarceration system, we see different ways that people have been cut off from American society. These resources provide the opportunity to consider obstacles to democracy: https://learninglab.si.edu/q/ll-c/U8y4n91dzcMeZNTu
The Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like series is part of the museum's Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative. For more information about Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like visit: https://americanhistory.si.edu/tell-me-what-democracy-looks-like
Mayra Stefania Arteaga works to protect Mecklenburg County, North Carolina residents from deportation. . Mayra Stefania's advocacy work was shaped by 287g—a small clause in the U.S. Immigration and Nationality Act that permits sheriffs to notify Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) whenever they detain a person. In many places, 287g means that a random traffic stop, a broken taillight, jaywalking, or simply looking “Latino” can trigger a deportation pipeline—regardless of whether a person has broken the law. In 2018 Mayra Stefania successfully organized to defeat 287g in her county.
Teachers! Educators! Seekers of knowledge! Connect past and present through the Learning Lab to discover how issues impacting undocumented communities have deep roots in the nation’s history. In Communities in Danger, we explore the Smithsonian’s collections to understand the history of how groups have been criminalized in the United States. From the Trail of Tears to Japanese internment to the federal incarceration system, we see different ways that people have been cut off from American society. These resources provide the opportunity to consider obstacles to democracy: https://learninglab.si.edu/q/ll-c/U8y4n91dzcMeZNTu
The Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like series is part of the museum's Undocumented Organizing Collecting Initiative. For more information about Tell Me What Democracy Looks Like visit: https://americanhistory.si.edu/tell-me-what-democracy-looks-like
