2026-01-04 18:00
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2026-01-04 18:00
In the United States, arrivals from African countries are one of the most frequently deported groups of illegal migrants. Over the past year, deportations of Africans have almost tripled compared to the annual average under President Joe Biden.
While much of the American immigration debate revolves around Latin America, African nations also have significant diasporas in the United States.
The number of African migrants in the US has increased sixteen times since 1980. According to the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), in 2024, approximately 2.5 million immigrants from Sub-Saharan Africa lived in the United States, constituting 5%. all 50.2 million American immigrants.
During both the Biden and Donald Trump presidencies, the most frequently deported Africans are those from Senegal, Mauritania, Nigeria, Egypt, Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola and Liberia.
Arrests of African-born migrants have also more than doubled in the first year of Trump's current presidency, even though less than 40 percent of them had a criminal history – according to an analysis of data from the US federal agency combating cross-border crime (ICE), conducted by Capital B, a news agency run in the US by African Americans.
The Movement for Black Lives (BLM), which brings together over 50 organizations representing the interests of black communities across the United States, claims that black migrants in the US are “disproportionately demonized and subject to violence and exclusion” at every turn, including forced returns.
Tadeusz Brzozowski (PAP)
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