Black Americans express frustration as illegal immigrants receive benefits they can’t access

Donna Jackson OPINION (PROJECT 21) – Black Americans have become more and more disillusioned watching illegal aliens receive benefits that they’ve worked their whole lives to never be able to achieve. Two of our Project 21 ambassadors recently participated in a Center for Immigration Studies panel entitled “Impact of U.S. Immigration Policy on Black Americans,” a topic that the& Project 21 black leadership network& also covered in a recent study entitled “What Immigration Policy Means for Black America.” Donna Jackson, who serves as Project 21’s director of membership development, told the audience: For the first time you have black males who historically lean left that are all of a sudden moving to the right. Why? Because economically they’re being pushed down the ladder and these other people are coming, illegal immigrants that are being pushed forward and on the pedestal…. These [illegal immigrants] are actually living an upper-middle-class life… They’re being rewarded for crossing the border illegally. And that doesn’t even include the fact that they get free college. They get free health care…. Illegal immigrants are being propped up. So all of a sudden individuals that haven’t achieved financial freedom – haven’t achieved it, fighting for decades – are...