{"id":2385,"date":"2026-07-23T13:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T11:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/2026\/07\/23\/donor-stories-that-inspire-hope-and-real-change-3\/"},"modified":"2026-10-28T03:42:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T02:42:18","slug":"etre-africain-immigrant-et-vulnerable-aux-etats-unis-une-realite-que-le-kunta-institute-refuse-dignorer-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/2026\/07\/23\/etre-africain-immigrant-et-vulnerable-aux-etats-unis-une-realite-que-le-kunta-institute-refuse-dignorer-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Being African, an immigrant and vulnerable in the United States: A reality that the Kunta Institute refuses to ignore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, the current situation has become deeply worrying.<!--more--> pour des milliers de personnesvivant en situation irr\u00e9guli\u00e8re. Dans de nombreuses communaut\u00e9s, ce climat s\u2019apparente \u00e0 une traque, plongeant des familles v\u00e9ritables enti\u00e8res dans la peur et l\u2019incertitude.<\/p>\n<p>The Kunta Institute, Inc., ancr\u00e9 dans le Bronx et engag\u00e9 aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s des familles africaines immigr\u00e9es, observe quotidiennement les cons\u00e9quences humaines de ces politiques : anxi\u00e9t\u00e9, ruptures de vie, perte de revenus, enfants traumatis\u00e9s, et parents contraints de se cacher pour \u00e9chapper aux descentes de l\u2019immigration.<\/p>\n<p>Amadou Simpara de nationalit\u00e9 malienne, d\u00e9crit tr\u00e8s bien cette r\u00e9alit\u00e9 lorsqu\u2019il parle d\u2019une \u00ab chasse aux sorci\u00e8res \u00bb. Son inqui\u00e9tude n\u2019est pas pour lui-m\u00eame, mais pour ses fr\u00e8res et s\u0153urs sans papiers, qui abandonnent leur logement pour \u00e9viter d\u2019\u00eatre arr\u00eat\u00e9s.<\/p>\n<p>Depuis son retour \u00e0 la Maison Blanche, le 20 janvier dernier, le pr\u00e9sident Donald Trump a mis en \u0153uvre de mani\u00e8re acc\u00e9l\u00e9r\u00e9e son engagement de campagne visant \u00e0 expulser les personnes en situation irr\u00e9guli\u00e8re. Ces actions ont des r\u00e9percussions directes sur la communaut\u00e9 africaine, souvent mal inform\u00e9e, isol\u00e9e ou vuln\u00e9rable.<\/p>\n<p>Seydou Sy citoyen nig\u00e9rien vivant \u00e9galement vivant dans le Bronx, raconte \u00e0 quel point le climat est devenu instable :\u00a0<em>\u00ab Beaucoup d\u2019amis ont arr\u00eat\u00e9 de travailler. C\u2019est aux lieux de travail qu\u2019on les arr\u00eate.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb Dans certains \u00c9tats, des gouverneurs tentent de freiner la mise en \u0153uvre de ces politiques, offrant un r\u00e9pit temporaire. Mais la menace demeure omnipr\u00e9sente, dit-il : \u00ab\u00a0<em>Dans tous les cas, ils finiront par venir chez nous.<\/em>\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>En tant qu\u2019organisation communautaire, The Kunta Institute d\u00e9nonce les pratiques qui mettent en danger les familles immigr\u00e9es, sensibiliser les parents et les jeunes \u00e0 leurs droits fondamentaux, accompagne ceux qui craignent l\u2019expulsion ou la s\u00e9paration familiale, travaille avec des avocats, des cliniciens et des partenaires pour fournir orientation, information et soutien psychosocial, renforcer la solidarit\u00e9 entre les familles africaines du Bronx pour faire face collectivement \u00e0 cette crise.<\/p>\n<p>Notre mission est claire : prot\u00e9ger, informer, d\u00e9fendre et soutenir chaque membre de la diaspora africaine, quel que soit son statut, afin qu\u2019aucune famille ne traverse seule ces moments difficiles.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the United States, the current situation has become deeply worrying.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[193,137,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-delinquance-juvenile-fr","category-tous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2514,"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2514"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thekuntainstitute.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}