How The Biased Criminal Justice System Makes Black Migrants Vulnerable For Deportation

[SirReginald]

Posted September 4, 2018


Undocumented African immigrants in the United States are disproportionately caught in the deportation dragnet because of the same racial bias that has led to the warehousing of African-American, according to a new report.

See Also: Trump Ending DACA Affects Black Undocumented Immigrants, Too


“People are worried. They’re afraid of going out and socializing because they know they can be arrested at any moment and taken away. There’s a great deal of fear in the community,” Henrietta White-Holder, an African immigrants advocate, told the news outlet.

Selling marijuana, for example, is classified as an aggravated felony for immigrants and can automatically trigger deportation proceedings. Once that’s started, due process often goes out the window. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents are laser-focused on deporting them. It often doesn’t matter that immigrants have a legitimate claim to legal status.

“They’re rounding up anyone who seems like they might not be American,” immigration lawyer Perry McAninchcommented.

Sub-Sahara African migrants have seen the highest spike in deportations during the first nine months of the Trumppresidency—more than doubling from 909 to 2,184, according to the report. While Blacks represent only 7 percent of noncitizens living in the United States, they account for more than 20 percent of those facing deportation for alleged criminal offenses.


This accelerated push to get African immigrants out the country should come as no surprise, considering who’s in the White House.

President Trump declared, in his infamous “shythole countries” remark, that he finds African and Haitian migrants undesirable, preferring instead immigrants from places like Norway.

Just two months after his insulting comments surfaced in March, Trump announced plans to end the special immigrant status that has allowed thousands of Liberians to live and work legally in the United States since the 1990s.

How The Biased Criminal Justice System Makes Black Migrants Vulnerable For Deportation

 

[BigMan]

in

 

[SirReginald]

......but but they just mean deporting them Mexicans

 

[Serious]

Yep its always been that way

 

[SirReginald]

@∆y = f(∆x)

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

HYON c00ns applaud any practices of deportations of marginalised people

the whataboutism in reference to media neglect of our African and West Indie brehdren is just a smokescreen of their indifference at the suffering and breaking up of families

 

[℃ertifed]

My parents and extended family came here legally. I remember helping them study for their citizenship exam.

I really don't know what illegals hope to gain from this convo.

 

[SirReginald]

My parents and extended family came here legally. I remember helping them study for their citizenship exam.

I really don't know what illegals hope to gain from this convo.

I know those Indians gots da hookup ha?

 

[ATownD19]

Yep its always been that way

That's what I was thinking. Africans get the boot with no hesitation. They're trying to crowbar the black immigrant issue with the latino one so we'll cape for them. They aren't slick.





HYON Maria

 

[SirReginald]

That's what I was thinking. Africans get the boot with no hesitation. They're trying to crowbar the black immigrant issue with the latino one so we'll cape for them. They aren't slick.





HYON Maria

Word. We have to protect our own first. I do align with Palestinians and Ethiopian Jews for their freedom rights, but I care about AA issues first.

 

[℃ertifed]

I know those Indians gots da hookup ha?

I'm not Indian you unemployed basement dwelling NEET.

 

[SirReginald]

I'm not Indian you unemployed basement dwelling NEET.

Yes you are.