Racial Profiling
2025 January
2025-01-28 The Navajo Nation in Arizona issued a warning to citizens that dozens of their tribe members were being stopped, questioned, and detained based solely on their appearance.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/us/navajo-detained-ice-indigenous-immigration-trump
https://narf.org/citizenship-immigration-2025/
https://www.axios.com/2025/01/29/native-american-immigration-raids-navajo-nation
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 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”.
2025 September
2025-09-08 The Supreme Court loosened restrictions on ICE raids, allowing agents to stop anyone based solely on race, language or job.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c784697j2v8o
2025 November
2025-11-28 Elaine Miles, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and known for her acting role in Northern Exposure, was detained and questioned by ICE. News outlets reported that when she provided her tribal identification card, ICE accused her of providing a fake ID. (For context, the Navajo Nations had issued a warning to citizens back in January 2025 for ICE agents profiling Native Americans).
2025 December
2025-12-03 The Trump administration announced a task force specifically targeting Somali immigrants in Minnesota. The DOJ called it Operation Metro Surge.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5631530-trump-targets-minnesota-somali-community/
https://www.house.mn.gov/members/Profile/News/15535/41031
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/live-updates/ice-somali-immigrants-minneapolis-st-paul/
2026 January
2026-01-14 Trump’s ICE goons began going door to door asking residents to point out their immigrant neighbors.
https://immigrantjustice.org/for-immigrants/know-your-rights/ice-encounter/
2026-01-15 ICE profiled and detained members of the Oglala Sioux tribe.
https://www.kotatv.com/2026/01/14/oglala-sioux-tribe-gives-update-tribal-members-detained-by-ice/
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5688969-oglala-sioux-tribe-demands-action/
2026 March
2026-03-02 Tennessee moved to pass HB793 and SB 836 to force students of color to show their papers before enrolling.
https://edtrusttn.org/resource/threats-to-education-for-all/
https://www.aclu-tn.org/legislation/stop-state-lawmakers-bullying-undocumented-kids/
https://www.wsmv.com/2026/03/04/tennessee-undocumented-student-bill-returns-with-amendment-protests/
https://www.capitol.tn.gov/Bills/114/Fiscal/FM0856.pdf
2026-03-21 Trump threatened to send ICE agents to airports starting Monday March 23rd if Democrats didn’t agree to fund DHS ICE agents. Trump wrote on Truth Social, “…ICE agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia…”. The Washington Post in their article wrote, “Border czar Tom Homan said ICE agents will be at airports to help TSA agents…”.
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/116267892671497457
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObltrGAQQS8&list=WL&index=8