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The U.S. has long characterized Haitian immigrants as criminals. This tradition began in 1963 when the first boat of Haitians seeking political asylum was summarily rejected by U.S. immigration officials, while at the same time the U.S. admitted thousands of Cubans as refugees and political asylees.

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The U.S.' refusal to acknowledge the plight of displaced Haitians and maintaining inhumane practices of neglect, disrespect, and violence amounts to a gross violation of human rights.

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President Trump is mentally incapable of imagining the humanity of anyone who looks different from him or hails from a different nation.

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We deserve a multiracial democracy that works for all of us.

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The black immigrant experience in the U.S. must be understood not in contrast to the African American experience but as an integral part of it.

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Fortunately, the leadership of black immigrant communities has always been present in all black liberation movements from leaders like Marcus Garvey to Shirley Chisholm to Malcolm X and Harry Belafonte. We know this is our legacy.

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Black immigrants and refugees have just as much at stake in the fight to make Black Lives Matter as African Americans do.

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Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

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If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

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I think it's really important that we understand the ways in which blackness plays out, right, and discrimination against black people impacts different communities in different ways but ultimately leaves them undermined and really devalued in our society.

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Nationality: American

Type: Activist

Born: Unknown

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