One of the things Donald Trump has been focused on since assuming office for a second term this year has been his efforts to crack down on the immigrant population of the United States. To accomplish this, he has been collaborating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has been carrying out raids across the country for months, detaining undocumented immigrants, or as Trump and his Republican allies prefer to label them, ‘illegal aliens.’
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement conducts these raids, they often do so after receiving tips or information about the presence of ‘illegal aliens’ in a specific area. At other times, they simply hang around neighbourhoods and question individuals they find suspicious. Unfortunately, this selection process is largely influenced by racial profiling. As a result, Black, Latino, or Asian individuals are much more likely to be targeted and questioned, or worse, taken away in a truck, compared to white individuals. Evidence of this can be found on social media platforms, where daily testimonies from victims of ICE raids reveal that almost none of them are white. Republicans and Trump supporters may dispute these statistics, but the reality is quite clear.
