Immigration narratives erase Black undocumented immigrants

There are currently more than 619,000 Black undocumented people in the U.S. The undocuBlack population is about the size of Las Vegas, yet almost no one talks about them. 

I know this from experience. 

I am a Black Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipient, one of hundreds of thousands of immigrants who are too often ignored and overlooked. 

The 2012 DACA executive order issued under President Barack Obama provided me and many of my peers who arrived as young people in the U.S. access to limited-term documentation and . . .