Thread by @leedsgarcia

Important thread below about a horrific human rights tragedy happening that no one is paying attention about, PLEASE PLEASE read through it: 👇🏽#ForBlackMauritanians

Mauritanians fled to the United States in the 90’s 00’s seeking asylum. Many were granted the ability to lawfully stay here due to the live-endangering risk of return, but many others missed the 1 year deadline due to not understanding our legal system, getting bad advice, etc 2/

Because things are so bad for black Mauritanians and it would be dangerous to send them back, ICE put those without status under orders of supervision to stay here but check in with the govt regularly. Well, now we have a new ICE with new rules 3/

So this is where it reall gets messed up: An immigrant cannot be deported unless he has a legal travel document from the country he is being deported to. Under prior U.S. Admins, the Mauritanian govt refused to issue travel documents to Black Mauritanians

..living in the US, cuz they did not consider them to be Mauritanian citizens! Now cuz they’re scared of Trump they’re issuing a temporary thing but it still results in the black Mauritanians being undocumented when they’re back in their country of birth!

This makes them incredibly vulnerable and under risk of arrest and SLAVERY upon their return! Estimates are that 20% of Mauritanians are enslaved! We are literally deporting people into slavery or worse! #ForBlackMauritanians

So what can we do? My friends at @UndocuBlack & @AmericasVoice tell me that 40 Mauritanians are currently detained in ICE detention centers and 100s have final orders of removal at risk of being detained soon. We need to help them! Pls help raise awareness #ForBlackMauritanians!

Also we’ve heard that all of the deportation flights are going through Morocco on @RAM_Maroc flights. Ask them to stop being complicit in deporting black Mauritanians into slavery!

Another way you can get loud #ForBlackMauritanians is to call your US Senators, and all of the house members in Ohio. Ohio is home to a large population of these individuals at risk.

Please follow my pals @tramontela @UndocuBlack_Pat @AmericasVoice @UndocuBlack @JayesGreenJ as this develops! It’s so important! #ForBlackMauritanians

Here's an article about a man #SeyniDiagne who unfortunately was deported this week despite attempts by activists to stop the deportation plane out of Dulles airport. #ForBlackMauritanians
washingtoncitypaper.com/news/city-desk…