AFRICAN MIGRANTS ROUNDED UP: w/ host PROFESSOR GRIFF
Metro Caribbean and African immigrants fear deportation following targeted operations.“I have a student visa. How would they respond to me? What is the legal process to apprehend us?“If [they’re] going to work, they might not come home after,” Ntumba said.
According to the consulate, there are about 8,000 people from the Congo living in Georgia.
“With the Congolese community we have a lot of refugees because of the war,” Ntumba said.
For Jamaicans living in Georgia, that number swells to about 500,000.
“Half a million. Some of them came for school,” Bryan said.
Ntumba said the main concern is whether Trump will end the temporary protected status program that allows refugees to remain in the country legally.
Immigration attorney Joshua McCall said there are protections in place.
“There’s still the law and there’s still the Constitution,” McCall said. “The best thing for an immigrant to do is to prepare all the documents that show that they are here, they’ve paid taxes, their criminal record, everything is clean.”
