With Trump Elected, Will More Black Americans Seek Mexico?
by Adam Mahoney
Life in their new country requires Black Americans to wear less “armor,” but there is no escape to anti-Blackness.
Over the last two months, more Americans have searched “how to move to Mexico” than ever before. Earlier this year, we examined what the country has offered Black Americans who’ve moved there in recent years.
MEXICO CITY — The Yarbroughs usually sat in the back of the bus on purpose. So, when police officers hopped on with their automatic rifles strapped across their chests this time in 2021, they already knew what to expect.
“I would always joke,” Apryl Yarbrough recalled in an attempt to downplay the traumatic events. “That the conversation between the bus driver and the police would be like, ‘Hey, you got Black people in the bus?’ ‘Yeah, in the back.’ Then they’d beeline straight to us.”
In their 2½ years living in Mexico, the couple estimates they were pulled over and questioned by Mexican police on 14 occasions. It wasn’t ideal, considering they moved to the country partly because they were tired of “taking back roads” in Florida to avoid police harassment. Usually, though, Yarbrough said, “Once we’d show our blue passports, everything was good.”
But these encounters always left them feeling uneasy. It became even more troubling when they realized they were being targeted not just because of the color of their skin, but also because of the country’s brutal crackdown on Haitian migrants, who’ve moved through Mexico in record numbers recently.
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by Adam Mahoney
Source: Capital B News
