US Citizens Reportedly Detained by Officials in Milwaukee for Speaking Spanish

Latina/o and Asian American communities fear racial profiling in the immigration enforcement operations that are expanding across the nation under the Trump administration.   The dominant stereotype that they are foreigners may lead to civil rights violations in enforcement.  U.S. citizens as well as immigrants are concerned. 

Chris Walker for Truthout reports that 

” [a] family of U.S. citizens in Milwaukee was recently detained by U.S. officials who questioned their immigration status after hearing them speak Spanish — the latest incident of racial profiling amid the Trump administration’s anti-immigration crackdown across the country. A relative of the family told reporters that his detained family members were born in Puerto Rico, which is a U.S. territory; people born there are U.S. citizens. . . .

Telemundo Puerto Rico first reported the incident . . . . Some details about the incident, including when it happened, are unclear, due to the family choosing to remain anonymous out of fears that they could be targeted again.”

KJ