Black Immigrants Face “Double Punishment”

Handcuffs, photo by Victor

Last year, Mother Jones published an article about the double discrimination facing black immigrants. Because black immigrants in the U.S., like African Americans, are more likely to have criminal convictions, they’re more likely to face deportation on criminal grounds.

The story hasn’t changed in a year. As Jeremy Raff writes for the Atlantic this week,

although black immigrants represent about 7 percent of the non-citizen population, they make up more than 10 percent of immigrants in removal proceedings. Criminal convictions amplify the disparity: Twenty percent of immigrants facing deportation on criminal grounds are black.

The article features commentary from immprofs Alina Das (NYU) and César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández (Denver).

-KitJ