Originally published at: How Trump’s Immigration Crusade Is Endangering Black Americans - TPM – Talking Points Memo
From what began as a routine traffic stop in Georgia, U.S. Army veteran Godfrey Wade was detained, transferred to a facility in Louisiana, and shipped off to a country he hadn’t known in 50 years. Sixty-seven-year-old Roderick Johnson, a Black U.S. citizen, found himself zip-tied and left outside for hours after Immigration and Customs Enforcement…
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Serious question. Have not seen any reporting of ‘Kavanaugh stops’ by law enforcement other than ICE and CBP? Is there evidence that incidents of racial profiling have spread to street-level law enforcement? This article is the first indication I have seen of concern in the legal and civil rights community that the approval of Kavanaugh stops can be interpreted as broader than immigration enforcement.
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Trump quote in the article:
“If we can do that, that’s good. And I’m talking about violent people. I’m talking about really bad people. Really bad people. Every bit as bad as the ones coming in.”
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He must’ve really hated his Scottish immigrant mother
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Or his paternal grandparents from Germany.
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…or his first wife and his current wife.
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Or two of his wives.
ETA. I’m late, but wife 3 should avoid stairs.
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Or 3rd floor and above windows…
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Doesn’t Marco Rubio have birthright citizenship?
Maybe that the “we won’t make it retroactive” reason.
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they don’t want to mess with CUBANS.. they are a fierce people when threatened..they endured too much to be frightened of a ‘marco’; when your family has crossed the STRAITS on a truck inner tube..the MARCO s are just dust in the wind.
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birthright citizenship
To be born in a country with no citizenship, no Social Security Number, no identification, no record of existing. Innocent until we figure out who one is.
I just hate it when he’s right.
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What about Rafael Cruz who was born in Canada?
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Donald Trump has demonstrated that he is a racist year after year after year. The facts of his statements and actions are in evidence.
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I don’t think any other law enforcement office would be able to defend using race as a reason to violate the Fourth amendment, because ICE and CBP are the only federal law enforcement agencies that have a brief anywhere close to race (immigration status).
I also, obviously, do not think Kavanagh stops are constitutional. I don’t think it’s constitutional for the federal government to detain anybody for any length of time without a warrant (public safety being the only exception).
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Well, if you’re in the business of deporting non-citizens because they’re black or brown or otherwise not white, why not go ahead and deport actual citizens while you’re at it? Saves time and gets you closer to the real goal.
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First off, I have an issue with the title for this article. The fact is Trump’s immigration crusade is endangering ALL Americans. But like with many other events happening, it does endanger Blacks more than others.
But before getting to that I want to answer your question.
Over 20 years ago the Republican majority on the Supreme Court ruled that citizens have very little expectation of privacy and therefore can be pulled over and stopped for any, in fact no reason. Furthermore, once stopped, there is nothing any longer that prevents being held and searched.
I know about this because many states Supreme Courts to include Illinois came up with ways to reign in the racial profiling the Supreme Court was now allowing. In Illinois the state Supreme Court using 5 cases, 3 of which my wife worked on as an attorney, became known as “The Disneyland Doctrine”. It basically says to police “that while you can now pull over Blacks and other minorities for any Mickey Mouse reason you want, you can’t get Goofy.”
That is for over 20 years as a result of Bush appointing Alito to replace O’Conner, one of the first results was to allow racial profiling so long as the police did not say they were racially profiling. That is police today need very little reason to stop and search as constitutional protections were restricted to the home.
What Kavanagh did was take away the BS and allow for saying what was already happening, racial profiling. That is what Kavanagh allows is for police to get goofy.
But to my title of this article. I call anyone who has lived in America since childhood and now in their 20s or older “my fellow American”. That is while Blacks are more likely to suffer from the lawlessness of Trump enabled by corrupt and compromised Supreme Court, we are all endangered.
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Oh geez. Have you never heard of the dastardly offense of DWB (Driving While Black)? Cops have been profiling black folks since they bought their first cars. Same with brown folks.
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I say collateral damage, Republicans say unexpected benefit.
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”Shame must be carried by the perpetrators, not by the victims.” — Gisèle Pelicot
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Priceless watching Rubio “child of Europe “ lecture at the Munich Security Conference. Nobody is buying what he’s putting out, even if he didn’t s**t the bed like Vance last year.
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