Figures show U.S. is disproportionately deporting Latinos

Immigrant deportations disproportionately affect Latinos, a report by advocates argues.

“This President’s obsession with deportations is really having a negative impact in our communities. It’s devastating communities all over the nation with high concentrations of Latinos,” said Hector Sanchez, chair of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, which co-authored the Tuesday report with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network.

In 2013, 97% of all immigrants deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement were from Mexico, Central or South America, according to federal figures.

By comparison, about 75% of all undocumented immigrants in the U.S. are Latino, according to Pew Research Center figures.

When the total number of immigrants deported under the Obama administration reaches 2 million, as it is estimated to later this year, the number of Latino deportees will equal the populations of Wyoming, Vermont and North Dakota combined, according to Tuesday’s report.

“That’s not only because a lot of undocumented immigrants are Latino. It’s also the result of a lot of policies that target Latinos by racial profiling at the local, state and federal level,” said Jose Magaña-Salgado, staff attorney with the Mexican American defense fund.

The report says federal agencies profile Latinos in stops near the border and target businesses that largely employ Latino workers with audits of employment forms. One of ICE’s high priorities is to find and deport “recent border-crossers,” a definition that includes anyone who entered within the last three years.

Samhraí wrote:If they're not supposed to be in the country then regardless of whether it's wacist or not then they should be deported.

It's like saying it's wrong to arrest a black man because of racial profiling even if he did commit the crime.

Samhraí wrote:If they're not supposed to be in the country then regardless of whether it's wacist or not then they should be deported.

It's like saying it's wrong to arrest a black man because of racial profiling even if he did commit the crime.

Original Quill wrote:Republican governors deport Hispanics because they vote overwhelmingly Democratic.  Unlike African Americans, Latinos represent 35% +/- of the US population, and could put Republicans out of business toot suite.

Ben_Reilly wrote:

Samhraí wrote:If they're not supposed to be in the country then regardless of whether it's wacist or not then they should be deported.

It's like saying it's wrong to arrest a black man because of racial profiling even if he did commit the crime.

It is not fair to punish one ethnicity for committing a crime (crime? I think it's actually a civil offense under our laws) more than another.

If it were murder, it would indeed be racist to punish white murderers more severely or more often than black murderers -- would it not?

Ben_Reilly wrote:
Also, for a lot of people of Mexican heritage, they didn't cross the border so much as the border crossed them, via U.S. wars of conquest. The ground I live my daily life upon used to be Mexican ground; the same goes for millions of U.S. citizens living all across the Southwest. And that's not to mention what the Spanish did to the native civilizations before that. I don't see how I, by virtue of one government's decree, should actually have any more of a legitimate claim to it than people who were here before me.

Samhraí wrote:

Ben_Reilly wrote:

It is not fair to punish one ethnicity for committing a crime (crime? I think it's actually a civil offense under our laws) more than another.

If it were murder, it would indeed be racist to punish white murderers more severely or more often than black murderers -- would it not?

That wasn't my point.
My point was that regardless of what group you're from if you're not supposed to be in the country then the Government is right to kick you out.
Maybe they shouldn't be targeting one group more than others but that doesn't change the fact that they're not meant to be in the country, does it?

Ben_Reilly wrote:
Also, for a lot of people of Mexican heritage, they didn't cross the border so much as the border crossed them, via U.S. wars of conquest. The ground I live my daily life upon used to be Mexican ground; the same goes for millions of U.S. citizens living all across the Southwest. And that's not to mention what the Spanish did to the native civilizations before that. I don't see how I, by virtue of one government's decree, should actually have any more of a legitimate claim to it than people who were here before me.

I am well aware that Texas used to be part of Mexico and was it's own country for a while, however "the borders used to be somewhere else and the geopolitical-map used to look different a 100 years ago" isn't a legitimate argument for crossing borders illegally.