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Photo: Jewish activist Sha Harvey performs at the start of a Passover rally. Liberation photo
Activists gathered outside the Kenosha Detention Center April 11 to demand the Biden administration stop the continued detention and dehumanization of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border, for legalization of the 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States and for the abolition of ICE.
The rally, which was organized by Jewish leftist group Never Again Action and immigrants’ rights organization Voces de la Frontera, corresponded with the annual Jewish observance of Passover, which commemorates the Jews’ delivery from enslavement.
“Passover is a holiday celebrating flight from oppression,” NAA organizer Rachel Buff explained. “I am deeply invested in the ways that Jewish history proposes broad solidarity. Our historical experiences as Jews as well as our interpretive traditions insist on metaphors which lead us into showing up for others.”