Breaking Borders: Interconnections Between Immigrant Justice, Family Policing Abolition, & Reproductive Justice

This teach-in was hosted by Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, Movement for Family Power, and Elephant Circle. 

In November 2024, Center for Reproductive Rights and Justice at UCBerkeley, If/When/How, and Movement for Family Power convened the Breaking Silos in Reproductive Justice: Building Solidarity to End Family Policing symposium to interrogate the family policing system as a reproductive injustice. Then, we continued the work with a 5-part virtual teach-in series in collaboration with Elephant Circle. 

Listen in to part four: “Breaking Borders: Interconnections Between Immigrant Justice, Family Policing Abolition, & Reproductive Justice.”

The state’s targeting of, and violence against, immigrant communities is a daily reality, as is the resistance against it. As the fascist state continues to use family separation as a weapon, it is critical that we have a collective understanding of the inherent connections between family policing abolition, reproductive justice, and immigrant justice. In this session, we discussed how the immigration system is inherently a reproductive justice issue.

Our panelists discussed our demands for a world that centers the bodily autonomy and liberation of all people:

• Abraham Paulos, Black Alliance for Just Immigration
• Noran Elzarka, If/When/How
• Silky Shah, Detention Watch Network
• Zaena Zamora, Frontera Fund