Exiled by Pigs
People are not being deported they are being exiled.
People are not being deported they are being exiled.
Let me cook.
Did you know Gitmo (Guantánamo Bay) was used to round up Black people? Ain’t that some sh*t. Bill Clinton......(pause, let that sink in) Bill Clinton in 1997 signed the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996. Sending thousands of Caribbean residents away from their homes in Amerikkka and to Guantánamo Bay. Almost every last one of them sent to Guantánamo Bay were exiled and not allowed to come back to their home.
By the end of 1997 the US government had exiled 127,300 from Caribbean countries like Jamaica, Trinidad, the Dominican Republic, etc. That was a 70 percent increase from 1996. The act was allegedly for criminals and illegal immigration. The sinisterness of it was these were long standing residents of their respected communities for the most part. No, they were not born in America. However, even the criminals that were found were products of American society.
These raids are not new; just more brutal.
In Southern California as I write this we are over 200 days from the start of the violent ICE raids on our communities. Kidnappings are on the rise and whole communities are being devastated. Like fire drills or more recently added school shooter drills; now kids are practicing for immigration raids at schools. Because ICE is a fucking disaster.
The government exploits immigrants by serving them up with taxpayer dollars to the prison industrial complex. The same group of elites owning private prisons own immigrant detention centers. In fact, detention centers are posting the biggest revenues inside of the prison industrial complex today; all that revenue is taxpayer dollars.
The DHS are paying the detention centers to hold the kidnapped. They are paying so well the owners of private prisons are starting to parole immigrants no matter their crime so they can be released and detained by ICE to get shuffled away to a detention center.
Louisiana, South Dakota, and Oklahoma have all put in place a parole to exile strategy in place. South Dakota has deported 10 over the summer. Oklahoma announced they found 525 prisoners to parole in February of 2025; only a few weeks after the inauguration. The state of Louisiana annually grants parole around 50% of their parole cases. This year there is a 100% release rate on immigrants.Most of the criminals being exiled by ICE are just prison transfers to ICE centers.
The kidnappings that are going on in the streets are mostly made up of everyday people at work or children at school (600 children have entered ICE centers this year). The only crime most these people committed was choosing Amerikkka as a place to call home.
ICE pigs are now coming after Black people.
It always comes back to us. Over the Thanksgiving weekend ICE raided Canal St in NYC. The targets were African born street vendors along the sides of the road. Hardworking Black people now have the eyes of ICE on them. No criminals, just people who live in New York that weren’t born here. The government is working to meet numbers set by the administration. They will throw anyone into those detention centers to meet those numbers. We were absolutely kidding ourselves if we thought it started and ended with latinos.
The build up to the holidays lead to Somalian immigrants and citizens to become the focus on the illegal kidnappings. The state of Minnesota has been flooded by ICE pigs. They are terrorizing and kidnapping Black people if they look Somalian (meaning Black). The chief orange pig is trying to denaturalize all Somalians who have naturalized citizenship. If they are able to make the rest of the government bow down to this wish then no one is safe. People from our generation might have their parents or even a millennial with citizenship lose their citizenship because it was naturalized and not birthright.
Ismatu Gwendolyn, a US born citizen with dual citizenship in Sierra Leone, was detained at an airport while traveling back to the US.
A man on his lunch break in Minneapolis was tackled to the ground. The ICE pigs would not let him show his passport to prove citizenship. The reason behind the attack was that he looked like he was from Somalia.
Families who have built lives here are being torn apart so billionaires can have a scapegoat for a terrible economy. The Vice President got on television to tell Americans that immigrants not Black Rock are the reason we can’t afford homes. Immigrants are the reason we can’t afford food. Not General Mills announcing on every earnings call for the last 4 years saying their increased profits are coming from simply raising prices. Racism is once again doing the work for the ultra wealthy.
Black nations are scrambling to take on a mass influx of people into their country. These people for the most part are not familiar or have ties to the nation they are being sent to. These are people raised or have lived in the US the majority of their lives. These nations have been beaten down by US policy for generations. The capitalist machine and anti-blackness from western nations are the entire reason these nations have struggled from the jump. Making these nations deal with this mess is only hurting the nation more.
We must change the narrative; much like how we are accurately calling raids kidnappings instead of arrests. The word deportation comes with the notion and image that they are being shipped back home; that is not accurately reflecting what is happening. People who have worked, paid taxes, and raised children along side of us for years if not decades are being removed from their home and not allowed to return. They have been exiled.
Stay woke,
Loc
Sources:
CBS Minnesota. “Minneapolis Leaders Say U.S. Citizen Was Wrongfully Arrested by ICE Agents.” CBS News, December 10, 2025 www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/minneapolis-leaders-say-us-citizen-was-wrongfully-arrested-by-ice-agents/.
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Jaffe, Hannah. “NYPD, ICE & Homeland Security Raids on Canal Street Spark Fear.” The CITY, 29 Nov. 2025, www.thecity.nyc/2025/11/29/nypd-ice-homeland-security-canal/.
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Bernstein, Nina. “ICE Detentions of Immigrant Kids and Family Separations Are Surging.” ProPublica, November 24, 2025, www.propublica.org/article/ice-detentions-immigrant-kids-family-separations.
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