Using the word “illegals” as a noun dehumanizes people, just like other racialized and hateful terms.  Sign the pledge to stop using the word and encourage others to do the same!
Read on to learn more about the campaign, from the Drop the I-Word website:
About the I-Word Campaign

Illegal(s): a damaging word that divides and dehumanizes communities and is used to discriminate against immigrants and people of color. The I-Word is shorthand for illegal alien, illegal immigrant and other harmful racially charged terms.

The I-Word Campaign represents a broad spectrum of …

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(From Mississippi Public Broadcasting)
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Immigration and racial profiling is a hot button issue for communities across Mississippi. But as MPB’s Lawayne Childrey reports the capital city may soon be adopting an ordinance to discourage the practice.
State and local Law enforcement must often answer to accusations of racial profiling.
“They’ve done things like setting up road blocks in Latino neighborhoods or on roads where they know that Latinos travel from the neighborhood to work. ”
Lily Axelrod, an organizer with the Mississippi …

PHOENIX — The Justice Department filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County for not cooperating with an investigation into whether his department was systematically violating the rights of Hispanics.

The government is looking into whether Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s department discriminates against Hispanics in its immigration sweeps.

Obama administration officials called the suit the first time in 30 years that the federal government had to sue to compel a law enforcement agency to cooperate with an investigation concerning Title VI of the …