What About White Undocumented Immigrants? Critics Claim ICE Raids Are Racist

In this handout provided by the U.S. Department of Defense, a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent watches as undocumented immigrants are loaded onto a C-17 Globemaster III at Tucson International Airport on January 23, 2025, in Tucson, Arizona. | Source: Handout / Getty

On Sunday, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials boasted that they arrested 956 undocumented immigrants after being enabled by President Donald Trump to outdo Elon Musk’s (alleged) Nazi salute by invading neighborhoods, workplaces and schools Gestapo style while enacting Trump’s mass deportation agenda. (OK, ICE didn’t say all that, but the officials did appear to be pretty proud of the 956 figure.)

According to ABC 7, ICE posted about the more than 900 undocumented migrants they have in custody in addition to 554 detainees temporarily lodged with other agencies across metro Atlanta, Chicago, Los Angeles, and other major cities and smaller cities like Omaha, Nebraska.

While Trump and his minions focus on the deportation and dehumanization of Black and Latino migrants who have crossed over the southern border, a lot of people are asking one question:

What about the white immigrants?

Source: X screenshot

According to the Chicago Tribune, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson said Thursday that he would “fight” to protect the civil rights of all Chicagoans, including the city’s immigrant community under the threat of Trump’s sweeping agenda. During a news conference, Johnson also noted something qu-white interesting about which migrants have been deemed acceptable to allow to pour into America.

“What I do find interesting is that when 30,000 Ukrainians sought asylum here in the city of Chicago, nobody said a mumbling word,” Johnson said. “But all of a sudden Indigenous people who are trying to get to a land that was robbed from them through colonization, they want me as a Black man to be mad at them?”

Actor Wendell Pierce, a fierce Trump critic and outspoken advocate for human rights, also posted on X that that the “mass deportation of illegal immigrants is a racist purge of the Latino and Black communities.”

“Notice no raids of the Russian community in Brighton Beach or the Irish community of Boston, where known undocumented immigrants regularly live. No European immigrant communities raided,” he continued.

Source: X screenshot / X screenshot

Now, we can expect Trump supporters to be as delusional about this as they are about virtually everything. They’ll call it mindless “race-baiting” and pettiness against a president who is simply trying to put “America first.” But the proof is in Trump’s old words.

Speaking with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Trump, once again, railed against “open borders with people pouring in” before insisting that he can tell some of them are “trouble” just by their “look,” which some people, those who aren’t being delusional and willfully obtuse, would recognize as a clear nod to racial profiling.

“Some of whom, I won’t get into it, but you can look at them and you can say, ‘Could be trouble, could be trouble,’” he said.

Oh, was that quote still too vague to peg Trump as racist and xenophobic? Well, how about during his campaign when he repeatedly compared migrants to Hannibal Lecter? How about when he called them “animals” who are “not human?” Or maybe when he suggested the “genes” of Black and Latino migrants predisposed them to commit violent crimes. Surely all of the times Trump has lied about migrants causing a surge in violent crime in America, which is not remotely supported by violent crime data from any reputable database, and his lies about them bringing “tremendous infectious disease” to the U.S., “poisoning the blood” of the country qualify him as a racist propagandist.

Still not enough?

*sigh*

Fine…

How about the time he explicitly said out loud that he wishes the U.S. received more white immigrants from “nice” European countries ““like Denmark, Switzerland” or “Norway?”

Do we really need to question who Trump is targeting in his bid to end birthright citizenship? It ain’t Europeans. Do we really need to question why, under Trump, DOJ officials are out here questioning the birthright citizenship of — *checks notes* — Native Americans?

Racism isn’t just an unfortunate and unintended result of mass deportation, it’s the inspiration behind it.

SEE ALSO:

Trump Wrongly Suggests New Orleans Attacker Was Immigrant Amid More Lies About The Crime Rate

Most Republicans Support Using Violence Against Undocumented Immigrants, Survey Finds