Initially, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s mission was to capture immigrants convicted of a crime for deportation. It has since graduated to hounding all immigrants, documented, undocumented, and even citizens, in its seal to satisfy nativist-minded Americans and anti-immigration groups like the Minutemen vigilante group. more>

In Africa, it takes a village to raise a child. In America, it takes a village to ruin a child. The virtual American village is as dominating and influential as the pristine African village. Its tentacles come into your home through the television, Internet, video games, outside you door, all around you at work and sticks to your cloth as you huddle back home at the end of the day. more>

An imported wife or husband from Africa could set you back $10,000, the author contends, and, if the marriage fails, you may experience countless heartaches and pain that cannot be quantified in dollar terms. more>

There is the suspicion that the immigration service is picking on African immigrants seeking to bring relatives to the United States based on the assumption that they are only trying to smuggle immigrants. more>

The Western world tends to think of Africa as merely a vast jungle of wildlife and uncivilized people. Hollywood has highlighted poverty, violence, and corruption, but has almost completely ignored the continent’s physical and cultural beauty. more>

After Tony Joseph (not his real name), 16, emigrated with his family to the United States from Liberia, he joined a gang in metropolitan St. Paul, Minnesota to counter the pressure of his school mates who called him “dumb African.” more>

The pool of eligible bachelors is depleted because many forbid their daughters or sisters from marrying into other ethnic groups, even when they are from the same country in Africa. Tribalism has stopped many budding relationships from moving forward because some parents still frown at such pairing. more>

"How can some idiots say every night on television that I am an enemy of America, just because they are looking for cheap ratings on the airwaves? I have contributed to this country and deserve to be rewarded with an amnesty. Period," lamented Said, an African undocumented immigrant in Philadelphia. more>

Immigrant rights groups are trying to end a bill currently at the Mississippi Senate Labor Committee, which threatens businesses that employ undocumented workers. Opponents say immigration legislation is best left up to Congress. They question how local law enforcement could even enforce such a law. more>

The author questions the Nigerian ambassador to the United States during the 9/11 tragedy for failing to inquire about Nigerian deaths, because they had become U.S. citizens. Still today, Nigerians have no notion of how many of their own perished in the attacks. more>

The black business class should have been able to help create jobs and develop programs to aid the larger African American community. They did not. more>

On December 26, Arinze Ojinaka was on his way home from work when he had an accident. Irvington, NJ police came to the accident site, only to find Arinze’s car but not his body. Five days later, Arinze’s father went back to the accident scene and found his son dead in the ditch, about 10 to 15 feet from where the accident took place. more>

As the proposed new national ID system awaits Pres. Bush’s approval, more sufferings are seen against undocumented immigrants, especially those who work as cab drivers, chauffeurs and other odd jobs that require a driver’s license. more>

The increased influx of African immigrants has many potential implications, from recalibrating the largely monolithic way white America views blacks to raising concerns that American-born blacks will again be left behind. more>

In an unprecedented move that defied all odds, President Bush seems to have changed course in an apparent head-on collision with the conservative arm of the Republican Party who helped reelect him. The president dug up the Fair and Secure Immigration Reform proposal from its grave, on January 7, 2004, shortly after his reelection. more>

In late July, a group of Nigerians launched Project 007, an initiative to return former President and General Ibrahim B. Babangida to the Nigerian presidency in 2007. This is part of an international initiative. more>

Just do the right thing and do not resort to violence in a domestic dispute. If you are of African descent and the police come to your house, you would rather that you were deported. more>

A large number of Nigerians living in the United States participated in Nigerian elections as candidates or financial supporters of candidates. Yet, by the end of the exercise early this month, only about five percent of those who ran from the United States managed to win their party primaries. more>

Chinyere, a New York City civil servant, would rather not reveal the pain and agony caused by the incompetence of Nigerian Airways, her country’s national carrier. But she wasn’t the only passenger stranded with no luggage, cancelled return tickets, and other travel nightmares. more>

The recent riots at the Miss World pageant in Nigeria have left even the most battle-hardened Nigerians wondering if the country’s constituent parts are dividing irretrievably. A national sovereign conference may be necessary to determine ways of unifying a Nigeria that is rapidly falling apart. more>

Either you will stay in America or you will return to Africa. If you are not able to decide what you want, it’s a sure bet you will end up nowhere. We may as well begin the process of integrating into mainstream American society, assimilating the best of the American way, while rejecting the worst. more>

Longy Anyanwu spent four years in a New Jersey jail for contempt after insisting that his children be brought up in his home country of Nigeria. His recent release reopens the debate about the best place for African immigrants to raise their kids: America or Africa? more>

$200 million in remittances buys little influence back home for Nigerians living in the USA. They are now barred from running for office in Nigerian elections. more>