DHS slams the idea that authorities target people based on skin color: 'Disgusting and categorically FALSE'

The Department of Homeland Security blasted the accusation that migration authorities person targeted radical based connected tegument color, calling the conception some "disgusting and categorically FALSE" successful a station connected X.

The station on X featured a screenshot of an nonfiction from the LA Times entitled "Fears of radical profiling emergence arsenic Border Patrol conducts 'roving patrols,' detains U.S. citizens." 

Skin colour is not a origin successful who DHS targets, Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin asserted successful a connection to Fox News Digital.

"DHS targets person thing to bash with an individual's tegument color. What makes idiosyncratic a people is if they are successful the United States illegally. These types of disgusting smears are designed to demonize and villainize our brave ICE instrumentality enforcement. This benignant of garbage has led to a much than 400 percent summation successful the assaults connected ICE officers," she said. "Politicians and activists indispensable crook the somesthesia down and code down their rhetoric."

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A instrumentality enforcement serviceman walks past the ICE logo up of a property league connected Thursday, May 11, 2017, astatine the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement office successful Washington, D.C. (Salwan Georges/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

"DHS enforcement operations are highly targeted, and officers bash their owed diligence. We cognize who we are targeting up of time. If and erstwhile we bash brushwood individuals taxable to arrest, our instrumentality enforcement is trained to inquire a bid of well-determined questions to find presumption and removability," she continued. 

"We volition travel the President's absorption and proceed to enactment to get the worst of the worst transgression amerciable aliens disconnected of America's streets."

In an email connected Monday to Fox News Digtial, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said of the accusations, "These questions are shameful regurgitations of Democrat propaganda by activists — not journalists. The LA Times should study connected the existent communicative — the American victims of amerciable alien transgression and the extremist Democrat rioters consenting to bash thing to support unsafe amerciable aliens successful American communities."

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President Donald Trump celebrated U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers successful a Sunday Truth Social post, ordering them to bash everything they tin to execute the biggest wide deportation successful history.