They identify as, “individuals, organizations, artists, and allies working to expose, confront, and overcome unjust immigration laws.” Their mission is to exploit the injustices behind immigration by becoming the voice for communities of people. Although their establishment is recent, they aim towards, “… challenging unfair deportation and unjust polity through organizing art, legislation, and action…reverse criminalization, build migrant power, and create immigration policies based on principles of inclusion.”
A strategy the Not1More organization uses to promote awareness of immigration issues is the use of art and similar works. Although protest and public statements are effective and most common, art represents a nontraditional method for personal and creative responses to activism. In her poem I Fear But I Pray, Emily Hernandez describes the struggles immigrants experience when reaching US soil only to encounter deportation threats once arrived. She shares:
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