Oppose the fascistic attack on Haitian immigrants!

As the Socialist Equality Party’s candidate for president, I denounce the anti-immigrant campaign spearheaded by Trump and his fascistic allies, with the complicity of Biden, Harris and the Democratic Party.

The racist attacks on Haitian immigrants in Ohio, on Venezuelan immigrants in Aurora, Colorado, and on immigrants of every background are attacks on the entire working class.

Today, school officials in Springfield, Ohio announced schools were being closed as a result of bomb threats against Haitian children. Trump, JD Vance, Elon Musk and prominent Republicans have promoted the totally false and slanderous claims that immigrants are eating pets, bringing disease and leading to an increase in crime.

When Trump mentioned this lie during Tuesday’s debate, Kamala Harris refused to challenge him, instead attacking him from the right on immigration and presenting her campaign as tough on border security.

The American ruling class has a long political history of using anti-immigrant xenophobia as a political tool to suppress the class struggle. The purpose is to divide the working class, scapegoat immigrants for the social ills caused by capitalism, create a climate of nationalism and justify police state attacks on democratic rights.

Trump is promoting and the Democrats are abetting the fascist provocation against immigrants in Springfield and elsewhere because they fear the threat that a united movement of the working class will direct its anger against capitalism.

COVID is spreading through schools and workplaces, killing 1,000 each week. Social inequality has never been higher. The US is escalating its war against Russia and is planning to strike deep within Russia with long-range missiles, an action that Russia says would bring the US directly into war with a nuclear-armed power. The US-backed genocide in Gaza continues unabated.

The strike at Boeing that began today—waged in defiance of the company, the Biden-Harris administration, and the IAM trade union apparatus—shows the immense social power of the working class. It also unites workers of all national backgrounds and ethnicities, demonstrating that all workers share the same interests.

The Socialist Equality Party and our campaign calls for the broadest mobilization in defense of the rights of immigrants. This is a strategic necessity in the fight for the international unity of the working class against capitalism and for an end to the nation-state system. Immigrants from countries like Haiti, Venezuela and elsewhere have the right to travel as they see fit. The countries they are forced to flee have been devastated by over a century of imperialist exploitation.

We call for the dismantling of ICE, CPB, DHS—the entire border police state apparatus. We fight for the unity of the entire working class against the capitalist system and their representatives. The attacks on immigrants today will be used against workers tomorrow opposing the dictates of the corporate and financial oligarchy.

There are plenty of resources available to provide everyone, regardless of nationality or immigration status, a good-paying job, a home, free healthcare, free education, a clean environment, access to culture and a world free from imperialist war. The resources hoarded and wasted by the ultra-wealthy must be expropriated through the struggle for socialism against capitalism.