Black, Undocumented And Fighting To Survive
Hidden in plain sight, Black immigrants are erased and deported without anyone checking twice.
Khadijah is not just undocumented. She’s Black. There are approximately 565,000 Black undocumented immigrants across the country who are erased from the (non-black)Latinx-dominated immigration conversation despite being disproportionately targeted by both the criminal justice and immigration systems. The racial profiling, tougher sentencing, and mass incarceration of Black people makes it so we are detained and deported at disproportionately higher rates than non-Black immigrants.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/undocumented-black_us_593178eae4b075bff0f2b281
Hidden in plain sight, Black immigrants are erased and deported without anyone checking twice.
Khadijah is not just undocumented. She’s Black. There are approximately 565,000 Black undocumented immigrants across the country who are erased from the (non-black)Latinx-dominated immigration conversation despite being disproportionately targeted by both the criminal justice and immigration systems. The racial profiling, tougher sentencing, and mass incarceration of Black people makes it so we are detained and deported at disproportionately higher rates than non-Black immigrants.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/undocumented-black_us_593178eae4b075bff0f2b281