The implications for the future of democracy in the U.S. detailed in the right wing’s Project 2025 and in its Trumpian mirror Agenda 47 are disastrous. But not enough attention has been paid to how those plans, if Republicans succeed in electing Trump and his minions, would affect hundreds of thousands of immigrants in this country, both legal and undocumented.
While Republican racist rhetoric is unleashed daily against migrants (much of it focused on Mexicans, Central and South Americans) we must not overlook Caribbean Americans. The U.S. Census Bureau’s 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) reported an estimate of over 3 million West Indians here, along with over 2.4 million Cubans, and 2.3 million Dominicans. The Haitian American community has been the most heavily targeted by anti-immigration forces, while many Cuban Americans have been the beneficiaries of immigration privilege.
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