Black Immigrants, Double Discrimination, and Trump

“Although less than 8 percent of the noncitizen population in the United States is black, more than 20 percent of immigrants in deportation proceedings on criminal grounds are black,” notes P.R. Lockhart, writing for Mother Jones in Black Immigrants Brace for Dual Hardships Under Trump. That disparity results from the fact that black immigrants in the U.S., like African Americans, are more likely to have criminal convictions.

Jonathan Jayes-Green, a founder and coordinator of the UndocuBlack Network, a group that advocates for the black undocumented community, told Lockhart: “I think our communities were already in a state of emergency under a Democratic president… so as we think about the next administration, our community has gone into a sort of crisis control.”

-KitJ