🛫 Who Are We Actually Deporting?

Removing color from the country

📡 On my Radar

Immigration and Customs Enforcement in the U.S. is only deporting a certain kind of person.

Latino immigrants face 90% of deportations despite comprising 57% of the undocumented population. That leaves 43% - predominantly white Europeans - largely untouched by enforcement.¹

While ICE creates "tiger teams" to hunt foreign student protestors and federal agents conduct mass raids in Latino neighborhoods … European undocumented immigrants benefit from cooperative repatriation agreements and standard processing.

Jaime Alanis Garcia, a 57-year-old Mexican farmworker, died falling from a greenhouse roof while hiding from ICE. Meanwhile, plans for the transfer of 800 Europeans to Guantanamo were quietly abandoned.

ICE isn’t showing up to offices, or going after vacationers who have overstayed their visas. They are going after decades-long residents of the United States: folks at Home Depots and ethnic restaurants, those in the agriculture, construction and service industries - where the Latino undocumented workforce is concentrated.

And while these workers of color are targeted, their well-off employers are never charged.

As a California district judge recently noted, this isn't immigration enforcement. It's racial engineering through deportation, designed to literally change the way we look as a country.

📈 By the Numbers

Visa overstays make up a significant volume of undocumented immigrants. Notice a pattern?

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