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Reasonable Suspicion

1920 - Eugenics

1920-01-01 During the rise of the eugenics movement Charles Davenport proposed building a wall to “keep out the cheaper races”.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/us/politics/trump-refugee-white-people.html

https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/trump-refugee-overhaul-to-favour-white-south-africans-europeans-report-9464721

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 ICE detained people solely based on their skin color and language. This is racial profiling

2025 July

2025-07-11 Tom Homan claimed DHS didn’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”.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/immigration-officials-cant-detain-people-based-race-speaking-spanish-l-rcna218400