“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.”
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.
“It was a lot of living hand to mouth for a while, trying to make sure I could get to next month. It’s stressful and it’s expensive trying to figure out how to adjust,” said Ibrahim, a culture writer who is a member of , which supports Black immigrants. “It’s hard for me to understand being secure in my position in this country.”“I know people who went through way worse than we did,” Ibrahim said of herself, her mother and her younger brother.
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