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.
“Individuals want to grasp ICE officers and Border Patrol, they do not want possible trigger to stroll as much as any individual, briefly detain them, and query them,” Homan stated on Fox Information, including that he says ICE brokers can detain folks “based mostly on … their bodily look.”
Certainly, the Trump administration’s racial profiling has led a number of U.S. residents to be wrongfully detained by ICE brokers, who, beneath orders from bigoted White Home aide Stephen Miller, have been advised to arrest 3,000 immigrants per day to fulfill an arbitrary deportation purpose. That evil order is definitely making Individuals much less secure since ICE officers say they’re unable to give attention to prioritizing criminals and as an alternative should spherical up immigrants who’re contributing to the U.S. economic system, all to fulfill Miller’s purpose.
Racial profiling—as Homan admits ICE is doing—is patently unlawful.
The 14th Modification to the Structure states that america can’t “deny to any particular person inside its jurisdiction the equal safety of the legal guidelines.” And courts have dominated that focusing on somebody based mostly on what they appear like is a violation of that modification.
“That is patently false,” Democratic Rep. Daniel Goldman of New York wrote in a submit on X, referring to Homan’s feedback. “DHS has authority to query and search folks coming into the nation at factors of entry. However ICE could not detain and query anybody with out cheap suspicion—and definitely not based mostly on their bodily look alone. This lawlessness should cease now.”
In fact, the truth that the regulation prohibits one thing just isn’t a deterrent for Trump, who not solely is too silly to grasp the doc but in addition merely doesn’t care about following the regulation when it will get in his manner.
Nonetheless, Homan’s admission on Fox Information that ICE is focusing on folks based mostly on their look could possibly be used towards the Trump administration in lawsuits in search of to cease ICE raids throughout the nation.
In the end, not solely are the Trump administration’s merciless immigration insurance policies breaking the regulation, they’re additionally backfiring. New polling reveals that help for immigration in america is up this 12 months.
A Gallup survey launched Friday discovered that 79% of Individuals consider immigration is nice for the nation—a file excessive. And simply 30% need immigration to be decreased, down from 55% in 2024.
“These shifts reverse a four-year pattern of rising concern about immigration that started in 2021 and replicate modifications amongst all main celebration teams,” 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 just isn’t good politics. Go determine.
