One of the most dishonest claims being made by liberals such as Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) is that the Department of Homeland Security is engaged in “racial profiling” in its enforcement of federal immigration laws.
Reps. Sylvia Garcia and Rep. Al Green, both Texas Democrats, also claim that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is racially profiling residents in the greater Houston area.
The overwhelming majority of immigrants who came into the country illegally are Hispanic, including the huge numbers that poured in during the Biden administration from Mexico. So what do Durbin, Garcia, and Green expect? Is it that a majority of illegal immigrants found and detained by ICE would not be Hispanic?
When ICE agents are enforcing deportation orders issued by immigration judges, do these elected officials expect ICE agents to sift through those orders by race or refuse to enforce those orders? Do they want agents to set up some type of racial quota system to address their alleged concerns about racial profiling? Because if that is the case, the majority of illegal immigrants deported will still be Hispanic.
The refusal of opponents to immigration enforcement to recognize plain reality is either a sign of unbelievable ignorance or deliberate falsehoods. It is designed to inflame the public and encourage harassment and intimidation of federal agents who are doing their duty to enforce the law. It is, of course, most likely pure political grandstanding.
Want some numbers? The Pew Research Center recently issued a report with numbers through 2023 of the “unauthorized immigrant population” (i.e., illegal immigrants). According to Pew, the number of illegal immigrants in our country from Mexico — “the country where the most” illegal immigrants in the U.S. are from — was 4.3 million in 2023. That accounts for roughly 30% of the illegal immigration population in the country.
And what are the next three countries with the largest illegal immigration populations in the country? Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras: all countries labeled as “Hispanic” by liberal race counters.
Out of the 14 million illegal immigrants that Pew estimated are in the United States, 10.3 million are from Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America. So, yes, a large majority of the immigrants that ICE is going to target are going to be Hispanic since they represent an overwhelming majority of those who evaded our border controls to smuggle themselves into the U.S.
By the way, another 2.475 million are from Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. That means that, according to the skin colors that liberal racists think are so important, people of color account for 12.825 million of the 14 million illegal immigrants in the country.
The racial profiling claim made about Houston by Reps. Garcia and Green is particularly galling given that Texas, which borders Mexico, has been on the front lines of huge waves of Hispanics crossing the border into the Lone Star State. Did they miss all of the news videos filmed during the Biden administration showing thousands of, yes, Hispanics, wading across the Rio Grande to enter their state?
In 2023, according to Pew, Texas had the second-largest population of illegal immigrants, 2.1 million, just behind California. And Texas was also second in terms of the “biggest growth” in its illegal immigrant population from 2021 to 2023.
Where do Garcia and Green think all those immigrants came from? Germany and France? Canada and Denmark? They came from Mexico and Central and South America, in a smuggling pipeline that led through Mexico from the Southern Hemisphere into the U.S.
The dishonesty of these claims is obvious. They are an insult to the character of the men and women of federal law enforcement who are doing tough jobs while being attacked and harassed by mobs, mobs being encouraged by politicians such as Durbin, Garcia, and Green.
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False claims of racism are used by charlatans to disguise their true motivations and intentions, which in this case, are to stop enforcement of immigration laws and permanently ensconce an illegal population that liberals think will help them retain and expand their political power.
Hans von Spakovsky is a senior legal fellow at the Edwin Meese III Institute for the Rule of Law at Advancing American Freedom.
