Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: Moore SM | Judge: Stroud
Status quo immigration policies are markers of differentiation, rendering them visible for cooption. The whole vision of the American dream become nothing more than mere lies, luring immigrants to the sweet honey jar, only to be archived and mapped out for political exploitation and control. Instead they must become imperceptible.
Tsianos et al. ‘8 Vassilis, teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales. “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century” Pluto Press
Of course migrants become stronger ... germane to the productionist reading of mobility.
This form of political inclusion uses the fantasy of rights protections to draw the migrant bodies into a system of governmentality in which they will always be understood as minorities, rendered as passive objects of privileged governmental decision-makers – reject this invitation of false promise and hope for it is only another excuse for better policing.
Tsianos et al. ‘8 Vassilis, teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales. “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century” Pluto Press
By working with the imaginary and the fictional ... functions of inclusion and co-option are enacted.
Immigration control punishes human beings for their unlucky birthplace – forcing them to look upon something they view as an oasis in their desert with envy and longing
Johnson 2007(Dean and Mabie-Apallas, Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies, “Opening the Floodgates”, New York University Publication)
Although arbitrary constructs ... deaths resulting from border enforcement.
This integrationist model of immigration control recapitulates the White Man’s burden under the guise of nationalist protection – the system of immigration is dependent on the security of the visa, a legal identity which is already complicit with the system of racism. By situating migrants in relation to the bureaucratic apparatus, status quo immigration control erases the immigrant body’s own privilege to speak on their behalf from the power dynamic.
Nelson ‘7 Matt, co-Presidents, CUPE 4600, teachers union at Carleton, “Taking Political Agency : ‘No Border’/’No One Is Illegal’ Politics in Canada” Paper presented at ‘Revisiting Critical Courses @ Carleton’, a Symposium in Ottawa, Canada, June 20-22 2007 1
National security, it is argued, must attract ... movements in Canada.
Racism must be rejected.
Memmi ‘0 (Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ Unv. Of Paris; RACISM, translated by Steve Martinot, pp.163-)
The struggle against racism ... the stakes are irresistible.
A marker for you, a marker for you the government says – legitimization of the identity construction of immigration control only allows for the creeping fascization of society.
Hayter ‘0 Teresa, writer and activist on migration and anti-racism issues “Open Borders: The Case Against Immigration Controls” p. 149-152
The strongest case against immigration ... danger of regression in society and civilisation.
Fascism constructs politics as sacrifice for its own sake, making the streets run with blood in the name of abolishing existence
Deleuze and Guattari ’84 A Thousand Plateaus pgs.246-248
This brings us back to the paradox of fascism ... dangers of the other lines pale by comparison.
Thus, Cean and I affirm,
The United States federal government should open its border toward the United Mexican States.
By opening the floodgates of the US-Mexican border, we allow for the escape routes to be opened for the immigrant body become imperceptible – our plan is not a pitch for utopia but rather a means of escape that allow for recognizing resistance as it occurs through actual everyday politics and allows the invisible body to challenge and change everyday life
Tsianos et al. ‘8 Vassilis, teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales. “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century” Pluto Press
In the 1960s and 1970s, the politics of everyday life fuelled ... heteronormative, productionist, majoritarian subject-form.
Escape is joyful – our affirmation of escape is a prerequisite any form of effective politics
Tsianos et al. ‘8 Vassilis, teaches sociology at the University of Hamburg, Germany, Dimitris Papadopoulos teaches social theory at Cardiff University, Niamh Stephenson teaches social science at the University of New South Wales. “Escape Routes: Control and Subversion in the 21st Century” Pluto Press
Joy is crucial to this book ... Joy is the ultimate proof.
Our argument is not that we ourselves are becoming imperceptible, but plan itself allows for the migrant bodies to affirm their own agency and build coalitions to resist sovereign violence OUTSIDE of the law – affirm this apolitical politics.
MINOW ’91 (Professor of Law – Harvard University, “Breaking the Law: Lawyers and Clients in Struggles for Social Change,” 52 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 723, Summer, l/n)
I have explored the tension between Pauli Murray ... to those lawyers that I now turn.