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By most standards, Ezekiel is living the middle-class Nigerian dream. At 41, he works as a senior manager at a Lagos-based media company where he earns a healthy salary. He also runs a successful side business importing and selling American used cars and has enough money to fund his wife and two children o Via Igor Espanhol 
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In 2017, overall removals by ICE dropped from 240,255 to 26,119, but the removal of African migrants went up - in some cases, more than doubling. Despite a six percent drop in overall removals, there was a significant rise in removal of migrants from countries as Gambia, Niger, and Senegal. | Atlas - charts and data, powered by Quartz. Via Igor Espanhol
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February 12, 2018 6:54 PM
"In 2017, overall removals by ICE dropped from 240,255 to 26,119, but the removal of African migrants went up - in some cases, more than doubling. Despite a six percent drop in overall removals, there was a significant rise in removal of migrants from countries as Gambia, Niger, and Senegal." |
"Ezekiel is one of the thousands of comfortably middle-class Nigerians looking to uproot their families and plant them across the Atlantic. For many, that desire is borne out of growing frustrations with living in a country where basic amenities can often be a luxury despite the trappings of a middle-class life."