Trump administration tells court banning ICE from racial profiling can't work in 'real world'
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The ICE Sweeps Are Classic Racial Profiling
prospect.org
... Trump's spokespersons and ICE officials keep insisting that they're targeting convicted felons in their deportation efforts, but it's clear that they're preponderantly seizing people because they look Latino, or possibly Black or Asian, who may or may not have documentation. There have been a handful of reports of non-Hispanic whites being detained, including a Danish-born man living in Mississippi, as well as several European and Canadian tourists. But it is simply undeniable that it's nonwhites whom ICE is targeting.
By sweeping up day laborers, car wash and garment workers, and the attendees at swap meets in the Latino parts of Los Angeles, ICE's criterion is clearly racial. Of the 722 people arrested by ICE in the Los Angeles area from June 1 through June 10, a Los Angeles Times study revealed, 69 percent had no criminal convictions. But they were in jobs and places that immigrants frequented, and they sure looked Latino. In consequence, as Jackie Ramirez, a Los Angeles radio host, told the Times, "you're scared to be brown." ...
"No love for ICE but you go where the work is."
I take your point, I think.
But, then, there's work and there's work.
The kind of work ICE is doing is, largely, thug work.
That logic let Trawnikis (en.wikipedia.org) sleep soundly.
For an indication of what's to come, see "The Worst ICE Agents Are Coming" (www.thebulwark.com)
"ICE has been around a lot longer than the Trump Presidency. That would imply that profiling by location and skin tone is not new."
You changed it from profiling to racial profiling.
It sounds like you didn't know that what you are joking about is illegal.
That would make sense because you do know cops will simply ignore the laws they don't like, and ICE is now doing so with impunity.
If ICE had been doing this before, the ACLU would have sued them before.
If ICE wasn't illegally racially profiling, the ACLU wouldn't have won this lawsuit.
Federal judge orders ICE to halt immigration raids in Southern California
www.cbsnews.com
The judge determined that federal agents cannot "rely solely" on certain factors when considering whether to make a "detentive stop," including the "apparent race or ethnicity" of the person in question, whether they are "speaking Spanish or speaking English with an accent," and their "presence at a particular location (e.g. bus stop, car wash, tow yard, day laborer pick up site, agricultural site, etc.)."
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