Feds targeted Latinos more after Supreme Court’s racial profiling decision, report says
Latino communities are bearing the brunt of the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign in nearly every aspect, according to a new report.
The League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, a Latino civil rights organization, found that court-sanctioned racial profiling contributed to the disproportionate targeting of Latinos regardless of their immigration status.
“The impact of mass deportation is on Latinos as an ethnic group, not on undocumented immigrants as a legal category,” reads part of the report. “U.S. citizens, lawful permanent residents, work-authorized immigrants, and multi-generational American families suffer measurable harm: economic, physical, and social.”
Although other immigrant groups are targeted, LULAC found that Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials mostly focus on immigrants from Latin America, particularly workers without criminal backgrounds who also do not have criminal histories. violence or to be placed detention centers with substandard conditions.
A recent quote UCLA studyFrom January to October, federal immigration officials arrested more than 187,000 Latinos and deported more than 126,000, LULAC said.
The number of arrests of Latin Americans also jumped, from 3,900 to nearly 6,000. Stephen Miller, White House senior advisor and chief architect Minister Trump’s immigration policyIt set a new goal of arresting 3,000 undocumented people a day.
A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security rejected the report’s findings in an emailed response to The Times.
“Allegations that DHS law enforcement engages in ‘racial profiling’ are disgusting, reckless, and categorically FALSE,” the spokesperson wrote. “What makes someone a target of immigration enforcement is whether they are in the United States illegally, not their skin color, race or ethnicity.”
“Law enforcement officers use ‘reasonable suspicion’ to investigate immigration status and probable cause to make arrests compliant with the Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,” the spokesperson added. “The Supreme Court has already proven us right about these practices.”
LULAC’s report comes amid recent court filings alleging federal immigration agents were captured on body camera footage and text messages Using racial slurs when referring to Latinos.
Additionally, Congress recently approved nearly $70 billion in immigration enforcement funding to cover the remainder of Trump’s term; At least $38 billion will go to ICE and $26 billion will go to Customs and Border Protection.
LULAC said it reviewed publicly available data in putting together the report and published studies to provide a fact sheet that paints a broader picture of the impact of mass deportations on Latinos.
“Dismissed individuals are disproportionately of working age, employed and without a criminal record, meaning they form the demographic core of the workforce in construction, hospitality, agriculture, food processing and maintenance,” the report said.
As of July 11, more than 65,000 people were in custody and approximately 70 percent of the population had no criminal convictions. Access to Transaction Records Clearinghousea data collection organization.
ICE custody data It shows that nearly 40% of those detained were held for civil immigration violations, including visa overstays and work visa violations.
Unless previously deported, living in the country illegally is considered a civil violation rather than a crime and carries penalties such as arrest, fines and deportation proceedings.
Indiscriminate immigration raids that have been terrorizing Latino communities appear to have worsened following the Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in September, according to LULAC’s report.
Supreme Court justices overturn district court’s injunction Immigration agents banned in Los Angeles From cruising Home Depots and car washes, stopping brown-skinned, Spanish-speaking day laborers and others to be arrested on immigration charges.
But after the injunction was lifted, federal immigration agents once again attacked Latino communities, even stopping U.S. citizens, according to LULAC.
This month, The American Civil Liberties Union reviewed More than 1,200 enforcement incidents were identified in eight states; identified 155 U.S. citizens detained, targeted, or subjected to law enforcement misconduct and 437 incidents involving possible racial profiling. It was also determined that 214 children were affected, 32 of whom were Americans.
LULAC said immigration raids have an economic impact. A recent quote UCLA study, Small businesses and Latino entrepreneurs in Los Angeles County foot traffic decline We have significantly lost millions in potential revenue in June 2025.
A LULAC spokesperson could not immediately be reached for comment.
