Migration is as old as humanity itself, with large-scale migrations typically produced by natural disasters and the physical unsustainability of the existing community. Today, migration is caused less by natural inadequacies and more by countries’ integration into a global economy organized around the profit motive, and the deliberate underdevelopment of certain countries to the benefit of others. For Latinos living in the United States, their violent displacement is the faded reflection of the violent political and economic intervention waged upon their home country. And this goes beyond Latin America. From Argentina to Burkina Faso, from Palestine to Korea, migration is manufactured. Trump’s war on immigrants escalated when he set a quota at the end of May demanding that ICE arrest 3,000 people per day. This has led to the massive, military-style raids that have terrorized communities from LA to DC. In addition to the raids, the Trump administration has already ended or is seeking to end Temporary Protected Status (an immigration status that allows people to work legally and protects them from deportation) for Haitians, Venezuelans, Afghanis, Cameroonians, Hondurans, Nicaraguans, and Nepalis - around one million people! Now Trump is calling on the over 500,000 recipients of DACA, which was one of the major historic rights movement, to self-deport. DACA recipients all arrived in the U.S. and children before June 2007 and many cannot remember living anywhere else. As artists and cultural producers, we join hands with the people of our city, country, and the immigrant community, to stop this racial profiling campaign, deportation machine and put an end to abductions and family separation. We understand the power that our work has in shaping public opinion in our time. As artists we have a unique responsibility to use our voice and artistic practices to protest ICE and amplify the just cause of immigrants and their families and their resistance against detainment and deportation without due process.We, the undersigned artists, stand in firm solidarity with those resisting persecution without due process and fighting for basic rights and dignity. We commit to using our platforms to challenge at every turn the massive misinformation campaigns waged by those who have a vested interest in the detainments for cheap labor. We dedicate ourselves to standing in solidarity with the immigrants and to use our artistic and cultural practices as tools of liberation in the struggle for legal status for immigrants now. ICE OUT OF RVA! ICE OUT OF EVERYWHERE!