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Trump’s mass deportations are only possible with racial profiling
Policy Close Policy Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Policy Tech Close Tech Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Tech Politics Close Politics Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All Politics Trump’s mass deportations are only possible with racial profiling As ICE ramps up street arrests, court records show that agents are disproportionately going after Latinos. As ICE ramps up street arrests, court records show that agents are disproportionately going after Latinos. by Gaby Del Valle Close Gaby Del Valle Policy Reporter Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Gaby Del Valle May 29, 2026, 3:00 PM UTC Link Share Gift CHICAGO, ILLINOIS - NOVEMBER 6: U.S. Border Patrol arrests search a neighborhood for an individual they were chasing on November 6, 2025 in Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Border Patrol, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other federal agents are in Chicago and surrounding suburbs during “Operation Midway Blitz” to enforce immigration laws. (Photo by Joshua Lott/The Washington Post via Getty Images)Washington Post) Gaby Del Valle Close Gaby Del Valle Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow Follow See All by Gaby Del Valle is a policy reporter at The Verge covering surveillance, the Department of Homeland Security, and the tech-right. Border security czar Tom Homan keeps threatening to “flood” New York City with ICE agents. But a new investigation shows that ICE has been quietly ramping up arrests in the New York area already — and disproportionately targeting Latino neighborhoods. The City , a local nonprofit news organization, found 430 street arrests in the metropolitan area between October 2025 and mid-March. Of these, 93 percent involved Latinos, even though they only make up 66 percent of the local undocumented population. More telling: Many of those arrested weren’t the intended targets at all. Agents grabbed them while looking for other people, according to court records, and detained them because they supposedly looked sort of like the person they were after. ICE is ramping up enforcement in cities where there haven’t been reports of high-profile raids — and agents seemingly have carte blanche to arrest people based on the color of their skin. After widespread backlash to ICE’s Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota, where a federal judge recently ruled that agents made warrantless arrests largely based on race, Homan said ICE is now using “smarter enforcement” in the Twin Cities and elsewhere. ICE has reportedly shifted to “targeted” arrests — but The City ’s reporting shows that agents will eagerly arrest anyone they come across while looking for their targets. Though ICE has plenty of surveillance tools at its disposal it can use to track people down, this equipment is apparently far less effective than racial profiling. And even if other judges rule against ICE’s racist practices in the future, there may be little recourse. The Supreme Court recently ruled that racial profiling is permissible when it comes to immigration enforcement. Court records obtained by The City documenting more than 1,200 arrests in the New York City area between October 2025 and mid-March show a troubling pattern of discrimination. Time and time again, agents will arrest a person they claim looks like their actual target, even when there’s little resemblance beyond skin color or accent. One man claims agents called him a “maldito Mexicano,” or a “fucking Mexican,” while arresting him. In several instances, ICE agents apprehended people they claimed looked like their targets and detained them even after it was evident they had gotten the wrong person. On one February afternoon, ICE agents circled the same Staten Island block multiple times in search of a 25-year-old Mexican man named Julio. They first detained a 36-year-old Guatemalan man named Isaias, then a 21-year-old Guatemalan man named Juan, both of whom they described as “a male who was believed to be the intended target.” The agents then arrested a third person, a 47-year-old man named Alejandro, because he left the building the agents had been monitoring. All three were taken into custody; the first two left the country after being detained. Nationwide, ICE carried out more than 400,000 arrests in the first 14 months of Donald Trump’s second term, according to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund . A growing number of these apprehensions involve Latinos with no criminal past or outstanding deportation orders, suggesting that agents are illegally profiling people on the street, a Cato Institute analysis found. Multiple people detained by ICE have filed lawsuits alleging they were targeted not because of their legal status but b
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