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As an immigrant justice advocate, I, of course, want legal status for everyone trying to make it in this country.
— Opal Tometi
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Opal Tometi
activist
1984
Ayọ Tometi, formerly known as Opal Tometi, is a Nigerian-American human rights activist, writer, strategist, and community organizer. She is a co-founder of Black Lives Matter (BLM). She is the former executive director of the United States' first national immigrant rights organization for people of African descent, the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI), working there in various roles for over nine years.
All Quotes by Opal Tometi
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Many of the concessions that leading Democrats seem willing to make - from cutting diversity visas to chipping away at family visas - would be made on the backs of black immigrants, people from Africa and the Caribbean who deserve these policies to remain intact as some of the few legal tools they have to immigrate to this country.
— Opal Tometi