Tom Homan, President Donald Trump’s border czar, admitted Friday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racially profiling the immigrants being rounded up in raids throughout the nation.
Certainly, the Trump administration’s racial profiling has led a number of U.S. residents to be wrongfully detained by ICE brokers, who, below orders from bigoted White Home aide Stephen Miller, have been informed to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day to satisfy an arbitrary deportation aim. That evil order is definitely making Individuals much less secure since ICE officers say they’re unable to deal with prioritizing criminals and as a substitute should spherical up immigrants who’re contributing to the U.S. economic system, all to satisfy Miller’s aim.
Racial profiling—as Homan admits ICE is doing—is patently unlawful.
The 14th Modification to the Structure states that the USA can’t “deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” And courts have dominated that focusing on somebody based mostly on what they appear to be is a violation of that modification.
Federal brokers take somebody into custody after an immigration courtroom listening to on Could 21 in Phoenix.
“This is patently false,” Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman of New York wrote in a put up on X, referring to Homan’s feedback. “DHS has authority to question and search people coming into the country at points of entry. But ICE may not detain and question anyone without reasonable suspicion—and certainly not based on their physical appearance alone. This lawlessness must stop now.”
After all, the truth that the legislation prohibits one thing is just not a deterrent for Trump, who not solely is simply too silly to know the doc but additionally merely doesn’t care about following the legislation when it will get in his means.
Finally, not solely are the Trump administration’s merciless immigration insurance policies breaking the legislation, they’re additionally backfiring. New polling exhibits that help for immigration in the USA is up this yr.
A Gallup survey launched Friday discovered that 79% of Individuals imagine immigration is nice for the nation—a file excessive. And simply 30% need immigration to be lowered, down from 55% in 2024.
“These shifts reverse a four-year trend of rising concern about immigration that began in 2021 and reflect changes among all major party groups,” Gallup stated of its polling.
Gallup additionally discovered that simply 35% of Individuals approve of Trump’s dealing with of immigration, with a whopping 62% disapproving. That features 69% of independents who disapprove of Trump’s immigration coverage, with 45% of these independents strongly disapproving.Seems, racially profiling immigrants, erecting focus camps on U.S. soil, and deporting folks to torture prisons is just not good politics. Go determine.
