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mu@ni.hil.ist ("無 Mu") wrote:
ICE has been systematically abducting sex workers too. For example, massage parlors, all year, but people are neither defending nor supporting these workers like the street vendor buyouts and "Adopt a Day Laborer" campaigns. From New York to Louisiana. https://truthout.org/articles/sex-workers-are-being-abducted-by-ice-and-abandoned-by-respectability-politics/
Over 90 days in January and February, nearly 1,000 arrests in Queens, New York, targeted immigrant sex workers and street vendors. In Arizona, over 200 arrests were made. In Texas, 11 parlors were closed in February and May under emergency powers that bypass criminal charges. Across 20+ cities this year, police collaborated with ICE in similar raids.
"DecrimSexWorkCA ... has organized ICE patrols, and distributed over $20,000 in emergency relief to undocumented and other sex workers since 2023. Their model is mutual aid, not charity." Other migrant sex worker support mainly comes from other sex workers in other underfunded grassroots groups like Red Canary Song and Trans Immigrant Project.