DHS: Racial Profiling Charges 'Disgusting, False'

The Department of Homeland Security called out "disgusting" and "categorically false" reports as "smears" from the Los Angeles Times that claim DHS agents are racially profiling.

"Any claims that individuals have been 'targeted' by law enforcement because of their skin color are disgusting and categorically false," the DHS X account's statement Monday read, linking to the LA Times' report from Sunday headlined: "Fears of racial profiling rise as Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens.

"These types of smears are designed to demonize and villainize our brave ICE law enforcement."

The LA Times report outlined an instance of an American being detained for questioning in the case of a protest-related assault of an officer, according to DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

"DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers do their due diligence," DHS' Monday statement, attributed to McLaughlin by the report, continued. "We know who we are targeting ahead of time. If and when we do encounter individuals subject to arrest, our law enforcement is trained to ask a series of well-determined questions to determine status and removability.

"We will follow the president's direction and continue to work to get the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens off of America's streets."

The LA Times reached out to the White House for comment and received similar rejection of the line of questioning of law enforcement efforts.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson reportedly called the allegations of racial profiling "shameful regurgitations of Democrat propaganda by activists — not journalists."

Jackson also noted the reports ignored the "real story — the American victims of illegal alien crime and radical Democrat rioters willing to do anything to keep dangerous illegal aliens in American communities."

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