Mayor Karen Bass addresses a group of immigrant advocates at a news conference in June. Bass was highly critical of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Sept. 8 that will allow immigration raids to resume in the Los Angeles area.

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By Ray Richardson

Contributing Writer

LOS ANGELES — The rising number of Black immigrants in California is renewing deportation and harassment concerns after a Supreme Court ruling on Sept. 8 allowed Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to continue using racial profiling to pursue suspected undocumented persons living in the state.

A study released last week by the Black Alliance for Just Immigration revealed that of the 2.8 million Blacks residing in California, 8%, approximately 218,000, are immigrants from such countries as Nigeria, Ethiopia, Beliz

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