Are you ready to build an equitable California where everyone—our family, friends, colleagues and neighbors can thrive? Join us Tuesday, April 26, 2022, as we gather our collective power virtually for Immigrant Day of Action! This year has started with groundbreaking proposed investments to advance the health, safety, and wellbeing of all Californians, regardless of income or immigration status. On IDA, we will urge our leadership to continue the momentum and keep their promises for bold, equitable public policy that centers immigrant community members who have enriched our state economically and socially for years, but who have been excluded from benefits and protections. IDA will feature a diverse line up of leaders, partners, and impacted community members from across the state, a beautiful celebration of our accomplishments and timely discussions on issues facing the immigrants rights movement in the Golden State.
Whether you’ve joined us before or this is your first time, your participation is critical to ensure an equitable post-pandemic recovery. With over 700 registrants last year, we are expecting this to be the biggest virtual Immigrant Day of Action to date.
Save the date for IDA 2022 and register today – we hope to see you there!
Schedule
9:30 am - 11:00 am
Immigrant Day Morning Rally
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Panel Discussions
Waiting No More: California and Pathways to Immigrant Inclusion
This panel will tackle the enduring and protracted struggle to reform our racist and unjust immigration system and draw from best practices that California has learned and implemented over the last 15 years, provide lessons for national reform efforts, and discuss the state infrastructure required to maintain the golden state's leadership in crafting inclusive immigration solutions.
11:30 am - 12:00 pm
Asm. Jaqui Irwin
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Lunch
12:00 am - 12:30 pm
Asm. Steve Bennet
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Workers Rights Panel
Community Leaders at the Forefront of Worker Justice and Economic Equity
What do equitable economic justice policies mean for gig and seasonal workers? Listen to immigrant leaders FROM across different sectors share their experiences, teachings, and organizing tactics FOR creating community-centered policy ideas that include all Californians.
1:30 Pm - 2:00 pm
Sen. Monique Limon
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Intersectionality Panel
Seizing Power: Centering the Margin in the Immigrant Rights Movement
The U.S. Immigration prison system was originally created in order to detain Haitians around the same time that AIDS’ entrance into the U.S. was blamed on Haitian migrants. Our current detention and deportation system was directly created as a result of anti-Blackness, homophobia, transphobia and ableism. Despite this, the current conversations within the detention and deportation spaces continue to fail at acknowledging the roots of this system and its daily manifestations. From MPP to the current treatment of African vs Ukrainian refugees, blatant instances of anti-Black racism and homophobic, transphobic and ableist negligence are evident within state institutions and actors as well as within our advocacy and legal spaces. How can we shift the conversations and reality of our advocacy spaces in California, in order to have a movement that truly centers the needs of our most marginalized? Join us for a rich discussion to learn from lessons by prominent Black and LGBTQ+ advocates on how to shift the center within the Immigrant Rights Movement.
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm
Closing Session
Policy Platform
Immigrant-Day-of-Action-2022-Policy-Platform-Backgrounder.pdfImmigrant-Equity-Budget-Fact-Sheet-3.15.2022.pdfImmigrant Equity Budget
A $2.5 billion dollar investment for immigrants in California that would advance equity by addressing historic exclusions that have precluded immigrant Californians from accessing the social safety net. The Immigrant Equity budget investment will go towards: SafetyNet4All, Health4All, and Food4All.
SafetyNet4All (AB 2847, Garcia): Creates the first-ever excluded worker pilot program in California to provide temporary wage replacement for undocumented workers who have been systemically left out of the same supports—solely due to immigration status—that all other Californians have relied on to weather hard times.
Health4All (AB 4, Arambula and SB 56, Durazo): Provides comprehensive health coverage and preventative care for low-income undocumented immigrants ages 26-49, who do not have access to preventative health care and thus were rendered vulnerable during the pandemic. This builds upon previous wins providing health coverage to undocumented immigrant kids, youth and older adults.
Food4All (SB 464, Hurtado): Modernizes the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) to provide state-funded nutrition benefits to all Californians ineligible for CalFresh due to their immigration status.
VISION Act (AB 937, Carrillo): Protects immigrants from being subject to double punishment and funnelled to ICE for deportation after they are eligible for release from state prison or local jail; prohibits the use of immigration status to deny incarcerated community members access to diversion, rehabilitative, mental health and credit earning programs.
Vision-Act-AB-937-Fact-Sheet-ENG.pdfSB-972-Gonzalez-Fact-sheet.pdfFood Vending
Enhancing Safety of Sidewalk Food Vending (SB 972, Gonzalez): Modernizes the California Retail Food Code (CRFC) to reduce barriers for street vendors to obtain local health permits, bringing thousands of immigrant micro-entrepreneurs into the food economy during a time when cities across California are enacting restrictive sidewalk vending ordinances.
CA ID
CA ID (AB 1766, Stone): Expands California Identification card (CA ID) eligibility to all Californians, regardless of immigration status, to enable inclusion and meaningful participation in our neighborhoods, cities, and our state.
AB-1766-CA-IDs-for-All-Fact-Sheet.pdfAB-2195-Jones-Sawyer-Alternate-Plea-Act.pdfAlternative Plea
Alternative Plea (AB 2195, Jones-Sawyer): Creates an alternative plea for those charged with specified drug offenses, which will protect immigrants and other state residents from the draconian impact of drug convictions. Prosecutors will have the discretion to offer an alternative plea on a case-by-case basis and only at the request of the defense counsel.
Training Video
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