A number of reports that I have come across recently have highlighted a trend that is all too visible in South Texas immigration prisons—the growing number of black detainees.  Black immigrants are generally absent from the immigration debate, but these reports make all too clear that ignoring the unique experience of black immigrants fails to grapple with an important part of the contemporary immigration story. After roughly thirty years of overzealous policing of black communities, primarily through the so-called War on Drugs, the disproportionate interaction of black males especially with [...]