Who is Rodney Taylor? | Angela Rye SoloPod

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🗓️ 23 July 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Angela Rye interviews Rodney Taylor’s fiancée, Mildred Pierre.

Rodney Taylor didn’t know he was undocumented until he was 17. Earlier this year, I.C.E surrounded his car and arrested him in front of his family. They told him that he’ll be deported back to Liberia without seeing a judge or receiving a hearing, even though he hasn’t been back to Liberia since he was two years old. At 46, he lives in Georgia where he works as a barber. Taylor is a father of seven children who he shares with his fiancée, Mildred. They were engaged shortly before his arrest.

This is not the first time that Rodney Taylor has had his life wrongly turned upside down by the justice system. His previous pardoned conviction is how he ended up arrested by ICE this time around...

KEEP FOLLOWING RODNEY’S STORY @gwinnett_one on Instagram and Threads, @gwinnetone on TikTok, or visit his website at https://pacthebarber.com/

Contact Rep. David Scott, Senator Warnock, and Senator Ossoff to ask for Rodney’s release.

Scott: https://davidscott.house.gov/contact/

Warnock: https://www.warnock.senate.gov/contact/

Ossoff: https://www.ossoff.senate.gov/contact-us/

Rodney’s GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-bring-rodney-home-support-his-legal-defense?attribution_id=sl:2e3213d1-ed19-43c5-819a-f369024e84f1&lang=en_US&utm_campaign=man_sharesheet_dash&utm_content=amp13_c-amp14_t2&utm_medium=customer&utm_source=copy_link

Are you in Georgia? Come to Rodney’s hearing on August 12th! Follow Rodney on Instagram and Threads for more information @gwinnett_one

BACKGROUND INFO

The History of Black Folks Migration Back to Liberia:

https://www.gilderlehrman.org/history-resources/essays/african-americans-and-making-liberia

Rodney in the News:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/25/ice-immigration-detention

https://www.11alive.com/article/news/special-reports/11alive-exclusives/georgia-barber-ice-arrest/85-127a6368-92d0-4950-98a1-238cd0a3eaff

https://dallasexaminer.com/rodney-taylor-immigration-status/

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