Racism, Mass Incarceration, Settler Colonialism and Immigration Enforcement

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley

29 May 2026

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The Trump administration is accelerating policies meant not just to deport undocumented people, but to restrict every avenue of legal immigration from the Global South. Abraham Paulos is Deputy Director of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, BAJI. He joins us from New York City to discuss conditions in detention facilities, restrictions on green card applications, denaturalization, and connections to the history of the U.S. settler-colonial state.

Immigration

Global South

ICE

Immigration and Customs Enforcement

mass incarceration

settler colonialism

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