Racial Profiling & 'Reasonable Suspicion'
1920 - Eugenics
1920-01-01 If you pay attention to the eugenics movement, Americans considered whites “the right people”. Charles Davenport proposed building a wall too, to “keep out the cheaper races” as he put it. If a history lesson doesn’t make clear the racist implications of not welcoming migrants, keep in mind news outlets began to report in October 2025 how the Trump administration began work to overhaul the refugee system so it would favor white people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-refugee-white-people.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/us-refugee-system-may-undergo-050027315.html
https://www.newsweek.com/us-refugee-groups-sound-alarm-potential-trump-changes-10894034
2025 June
2025-06-14 News outlets reported an increase in racial profiling as ICE detained people solely based on their skin color and language.
2025 July
2025-07-11 Tom Homan stated that they don’t need probable cause to detain someone, just reasonable suspicion.
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5396985-trump-homan-immigration-detainments/
2025-07-11 A judge had to issue an order barring officials from detaining people based solely on race or spoken language. Tom Homan asserted that a judge can’t dictate immigration policy and clarified that physical appearance was only part of his “reasonable suspicion”.