{"id":6599,"date":"2026-02-02T21:10:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:10:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=6599"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:10:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:10:49","slug":"its-like-theyre-hunting-us-citizens-and-legal-residents-report-increase-in-racial-profiling-by-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2026\/02\/02\/its-like-theyre-hunting-us-citizens-and-legal-residents-report-increase-in-racial-profiling-by-ice\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It\u2019s like they\u2019re hunting\u2019: US citizens and legal residents report increase in racial profiling by ICE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents are reporting a surge in racial profiling and harassment by ICE agents following the Trump administration&#8217;s nationwide immigration crackdown. Incidents include federal agents encircling individuals in public parks, performing aggressive traffic stops, and questioning the citizenship of military veterans based on their appearance. Community organizers in states like Minnesota and California have responded by providing &#8220;know your rights&#8221; training and safety tools, such as whistles, to help residents protect themselves. Despite these reports, the Department of Homeland Security has denied allegations of racial profiling, asserting that arrests are based on reasonable suspicion of immigration status.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date:<\/strong> January 22, 2026. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jan\/22\/us-citizens-racial-profiling-ice\">theguardian.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents are reporting a surge in racial profiling and harassment by ICE agents following the Trump administration&#8217;s nationwide immigration crackdown. Incidents include federal agents encircling individuals in public parks, performing aggressive traffic stops, and questioning the citizenship of military veterans based on their appearance. Community organizers in states like Minnesota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":6594,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-immigration-and-integration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6599"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6804,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6599\/revisions\/6804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}