Posted on 08/24/2021 6:08:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Shamira Ibrahim has experienced homelessness, a nerve-wracking trip across the U.S.-Canada border, struggles to obtain visas, poverty, a run-in with the criminal justice system and major financial hurdles as a result of being an East African immigrant.
Ibrahim, who is in her 30s, was born in Canada and briefly lived in East Africa before she and her family moved to the U.S. when she was around 5 years old. So Ibrahim has spent most of her life in the country, living with a fear Black immigrants know all too well. She has permanent resident status as a green card holder, but decades of status insecurity are difficult to shake, she said.
Still, she considers herself one of the lucky ones.
“I know people who went through way worse than we did,” Ibrahim said of herself, her mother and her younger brother. “In a country like America, whose empire is built on criminalizing foreigners, Black immigrants have an additional stressor around that, because Black people in this country are inherently criminalized. So navigating this country is uniquely painful.”
About 7 percent of immigrants in the U.S. are Black. And the country’s estimated 4.6 million Black immigrants endure racism and xenophobia as they navigate life in the U.S. Black immigrants are more likely to be deported than immigrants of other races are, according to a report from the Black Alliance for Just Immigration.
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I don’t go to doctors anymore because they are all affirmative-action twits chosen to fit a quota and not based on their abilities.
STFU or go back to Africa.
“was born in Canada”
Go back to Canada!
Interesting.
Siberian, North Korean, and Qatari citizens have also been left out of policy decisions in the United States. I wonder why?
We totally need more people with an average IQ of 80 to develop policy. For sure.
(By Siberian citizens I mean Russian citizens in Siberia.)
No mention of having a job, ever having a job, or looking for a job.
I’m shocked
She’s free to leave.
I am DONE with this BS.
“In a country like America, whose empire is built on criminalizing foreigners, Black immigrants have an additional stressor around that, because Black people in this country are inherently criminalized. So navigating this country is uniquely painful.”
Stopped reading right there.
“ a run-in with the criminal justice system‘
If it is so bad here, LEAVE….
Liberate yourself. Somalia and Kenya are calling!
BTW, stop liberating everything at Golden Corral.
Following the NYT push to get the vote for non-citizens.
She don’t look like she’s starvin
No mention of schooling or skills available for employment.
I AM HERE & I AM BLACK are NOT qualifications for employment by me.
She is not a citizen. She gets no say in U.S. immigration policy.
It's nerve-wracking when your press on nails pop off and you're digging around on the floorboard while trying to drive across the border.
“In a country like America, whose empire is built on criminalizing foreigners...”
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