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Immigration and Criminal Convictions
In this month's article I want to briefly touch on the incarceration and detention of so many of our immigrant community. Recently I attended a meeting of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration (BAJI) and I discovered some alarming statistics. "BAJI's statistics discovered that immigrants of African descent are racially profiled by local police and turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported at a rate five times their representation in the undocumented population, mirroring the gross over-representation of African Americans in the criminal justice system.More...