Black Voices Explain ‘Why Black People Should Care’ About ICE Raids
By BIN
June 13, 2025
Black voices across the internet are shutting down the dangerous notion that immigration raids are only a "Latino issue."
Anti-ICE protests have spread nationwide in response to raids and demonstrations in Los Angeles, along with President Donald Trump's deployment of the National Guard and Marines.
Though the fight against ICE can appear to be solely a "Latino issue," the truth is Black people are immigrants too and are also Latino, as several people have pointed out online.
Black immigrants, including Afro-Dominicans, Afro-Colombians, Garifuna from Central America, Haitians, and more, aren't centered in the conversation surrounding immigration raids, but are disproportionately targeted for detention and deportation. Black safety is also at risk due to racial profiling running rampant among ICE agents, ripping people from their homes, jobs, and businesses.
“The ICE racial profiling of Latinos as inherently undocumented includes many AfroLatinos,” Afro Latina civil rights lawyer Tanya Katerí Hernández said in a statement, per Word in Black. ICE Raids can "just as easily ensnare African Americans as the AfroLatinos who share a common appearance."
“Accepting the denial of due process against Latinos won’t keep Black people safe,” she added. “Whether we like it or not, the assault on the humanity of those presumed undocumented is a Black issue too.”
One social media user pointed out how Black people and Latinos should stand together as they face the "same oppressor."
"The same oppressor that exploits the African, abuses the Latino," the user said, noting that the corporations behind ICE are the same ones behind state and federal prisons, where Black people are being used for slave labor.
"ICE is not just looking for Latino immigrants," one TikToker explained.
The TikToker warned that ICE will infiltrate ethnic neighborhoods across the country and target "whoever doesn't look the part as a U.S. citizen."
@cedonifrancis it’s getting spook(ier) out here.
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Baba Akili of Black Lives Matter LA also spoke out about why the Black community should care about ICE raids.
Akili suggested that the community stand in solidarity with immigrants who are innocent people and have committed no crimes.
"If you see a crow eating your neighbor's corn, shoot it away because tomorrow he'll be eating your corn."
@l.a.taco One question on a lot of people’s minds: How do the recent immigration protests compare to the George Floyd protests? Black Lives Matter leader @akili4thepeople shares his wisdom. “Now it’s right on your own streets, people in your own community qnd neighborhood are being snatched up by federal people with masks on and so it touches you differently and you feel differently and you feel more tense you, you feel more passionately about it and that’s why I think people are here.” ~ @shoton35mm
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