Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

In my own personal experience, I've had different family members who have been held in immigration detention because they've had some sort of challenge financially, and they were making difficult decisions, and that led to their immigration detention and, eventually, deportation.

If black lives mattered, I believe that policing and immigration enforcement would not be the devastating force that it is in our communities.

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