As the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency conducts
its sweeps on immigrant communities, African people are among those who
are being detained and deported. While deportations were in no short
supply under the Obama administration, these deportations are expected
to soar under Trump, whose immigration ban
on six Muslim nations includes three African nations — Libya, Somalia
and Sudan. Trump also is clamping down on refugees and asylum seekers.According to data from the Department of Homeland Security, in 2015, ICE
deported 1,293 African immigrants. Since the 2016 election, the ICE
raids on Black immigrant communities have intensified. For example, in
January, 86 men and women were deported to Mogadishu, the capital of
Somalia, after being detained and imprisoned, as Africanews.com
reported. In November, 108 immigrants were deported to Ghana and 20
people also were deported to Liberia, while 53 others were processed for
deportation. Earlier this month, ICE deported 130 people to Senegal,
six times the number recorded by the agency in its 2016 report…
Deportation of African and Other Black Immigrants Is Quietly Increasing And No One Is Taking Note
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