5% of Undocumented Migrants Are Black. They're 20% of Potential Deportations.

Black lives matter! Migrant lives matter!

During the summer of 2020, the U.S. was engulfed in widespread protests that brought hundreds of thousands of people into the streets in the aftermath of the racist public lynching of 46-year-old George Floyd. The Minneapolis police murdered Floyd on May 25 of that year. Those protests, which spread

5% of Undocumented Migrants Are Black. They're 20% of Potential Deportations.

One of the most underreported aspects of life for Black undocumented migrants can be summed up in one statistic: They’re deported at a rate four times more often than their numbers would suggest, according to an analysis of federal data by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration. The analysis showed that while Black migrants make up 5.4% of the undocumented population in the U.S., they make up 20.3% of migrants facing removal based on criminal c…