Watchdog criticizes “racist hate speech” and mass deportations in the United States

A United Nations watchdog has accused Donald Trump and other U.S. political leaders of using “racist hate speech” against migrants and overseeing policies that have led to serious human rights violations.

In a decision issued this week, the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) called on the United States to meet its obligations under international agreements to combat racism and discrimination.

The committee said it was deeply concerned by the use of dehumanising language and harmful stereotypes directed at migrants, refugees and asylum seekers.

“Portraying them as criminals or as a burden, by politicians and influential public figures at the highest level, particularly the president, may incite racial discrimination and hate crimes,” the panel said.

The statement marked a rare instance in which the UN body appeared to directly criticize remarks made by a sitting U.S. president.

Concerns about migration crackdown

The panel also documented concerns about a wide range of measures introduced during Trump’s current administration to control migration.

These include allegations of systematic racial profiling by officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and border patrol agencies.

The committee also cited reports describing “discriminatory, dangerous and violent methods” used in immigration enforcement operations.

According to the report, at least eight people have died since January 2026 in incidents linked to immigration enforcement.

Minneapolis cases highlighted

Particular attention was given to events in Minneapolis, where federal immigration agents carried out large-scale operations earlier this year.

The panel said it had identified a pattern of serious human rights violations during the crackdown.

It referenced the deaths of two individuals — Alex Pretti and Renee Good — who were killed in separate shootings involving federal agents.

The committee said the incidents could amount to gross violations of international human rights law, and may constitute extrajudicial killings of peaceful protesters.

Surge in detention and deportations

CERD also expressed concern about the rapid rise in the number of migrants being held in detention facilities.

According to the report, the number of people detained increased from about 40,000 in late 2024 to roughly 73,000 at the beginning of 2026.

At least 675,000 migrants have been deported since Trump returned to power in January 2025.

The committee also noted that the administration had moved to remove legal protections from hundreds of thousands of migrants who had previously been allowed to live in the United States.

Reports of detainees being held in inhumane conditions and receiving inadequate medical care were also cited as major concerns.

At least 29 migrants died in detention facilities in 2025, with six additional deaths reported in January 2026, according to the report.

Complaint brought by civil liberties group

The UN committee issued its decision after the American Civil Liberties Union asked it to review possible rights violations connected to immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota.

CERD’s decisions are non-binding, meaning they do not impose legal penalties but are intended to highlight potential violations of international standards.

Previous U.S. administrations, including those led by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have also faced criticism from the panel over immigration policies.

However, the committee did not previously single out presidential rhetoric in the same way.

White House rejects criticism

The Trump administration dismissed the report and criticized the United Nations.

White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said the assessment was biased and out of touch with conditions in the United States.

“This United Nations assessment is just as useless as their broken escalator, and their extreme bias continues to prove why no one takes them seriously,” she said in a statement.

She added that the administration’s border policies had made the country “safer and stronger than ever before.”

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Are we referring to Trump's USA, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia or Pol Pot's Kampuchea? Is there any difference between them?

How many deaths can we lay at Trump's door, directly through being shot or bombed and indirectly through cutting USAID? Medicare?

It's in the hundreds of thousands and will probably end up in the millions.

The UN panel is absolutely right.

But Trump and his crew of bullies couldn't give a darn. International (and domestic) laws have been put aside and ignored from the day Trump took office.

https://americanskilledbyillegals.org

The Don is not my favorite person, however I give him credit for enforcing his Country's immigration laws. He has made more progress in two years, than the last 50 years of USA's politicians. The USA immigration laws are not new, they have existed for years. However, previous politicians ignored enforcement in favor of the vote. Should the USA citizens overwhelmingly want to legislate new immigration laws, they have the path to do so, but they would rather scream, protest, riot and moan about it rather than any productive change.

Innocent people are going to get hurt, collateral damage. Everybody screams about it, but very few recognize how many innocent people have been harmed or murdered by illegals. Daily publications and reports about deportations, but very, very few reports about the https://americanskilledbyillegals.org

Our Countries should head the lesson that Trump is teaching us about immigration laws. Remember when a late night stroll was safe in Stockholm, Oslo, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Athens, etc?

Nothing wrong with feeding a stray so they don't starve, but finish the job by helping them get back home.

CERD Current members

Name	State	Term expires 19 January
Ms. AL-MISNAD Shaikha	Qatar	2030
Mr. BALCERZAK Michal Chair	Poland	2030
Ms. Boker – Wilson Pela	Liberia	2028
Ms. CHUNG Chinsung Rapporteur	Republic of Korea	2030
Mr. DIABY Bakari Sidiki	Côte d’Ivoire	2030
Ms. ESSENEME Régine Vice-Chair	Cameroon	2030
Mr. GUAN Jian	China	2028
Mr. GUISSE Ibrahima English | Français	Senegal	2028
Mr. KUT Gün	Türkiye	2030
Ms. POUSA CARIDE Carla Ivette	Panama	2030
Mr. RAYESS Vadili	Mauritania	2028
Ms. SHEPHERD Verene Albertha Vice-Chair	Jamaica	2028
Mr. SIBANDE Chrispine Gwalawala	Malawi	2028
Ms. STAVRINAKI Stamatia English | Français	Greece	2028
Ms. TEBIE Mazalo	Togo	2030
Ms. TLAKULA Faith Dikeledi Pansy	South Africa	2028
Mr. TLEMÇANI Abderrahman	Morocco	2028
Mr. VÁZQUEZ Saúl Vicente  English/Español	Mexico	2030

https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/cerd/membership

My guess is this lot are not Trump fans. Plenty of Ms's but no Mrs.

Immigration into the US is legal. Entering the US illegally is not immigrating to the US. Apart from this legal immigration levels in countries like the UK, Australia and Canada are way, way too high.

15 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

CERD Current members

Name	State	Term expires 19 January
Ms. AL-MISNAD Shaikha	Qatar	2030
Mr. BALCERZAK Michal Chair	Poland	2030
Ms. Boker – Wilson Pela	Liberia	2028
Ms. CHUNG Chinsung Rapporteur	Republic of Korea	2030
Mr. DIABY Bakari Sidiki	Côte d’Ivoire	2030
Ms. ESSENEME Régine Vice-Chair	Cameroon	2030
Mr. GUAN Jian	China	2028
Mr. GUISSE Ibrahima English | Français	Senegal	2028
Mr. KUT Gün	Türkiye	2030
Ms. POUSA CARIDE Carla Ivette	Panama	2030
Mr. RAYESS Vadili	Mauritania	2028
Ms. SHEPHERD Verene Albertha Vice-Chair	Jamaica	2028
Mr. SIBANDE Chrispine Gwalawala	Malawi	2028
Ms. STAVRINAKI Stamatia English | Français	Greece	2028
Ms. TEBIE Mazalo	Togo	2030
Ms. TLAKULA Faith Dikeledi Pansy	South Africa	2028
Mr. TLEMÇANI Abderrahman	Morocco	2028
Mr. VÁZQUEZ Saúl Vicente  English/Español	Mexico	2030

https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/cerd/membership

My guess is this lot are not Trump fans. Plenty of Ms's but no Mrs.

It’s considered correct formal address to refer to women as Ms. rather than Miss or Mrs.

11 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

It’s considered correct formal address to refer to women as Ms. rather than Miss or Mrs.

Indeed. This of course is a dictate from the modern left.

41 minutes ago, Zimar said:

https://americanskilledbyillegals.org

The Don is not my favorite person, however I give him credit for enforcing his Country's immigration laws. He has made more progress in two years, than the last 50 years of USA's politicians. The USA immigration laws are not new, they have existed for years. However, previous politicians ignored enforcement in favor of the vote. Should the USA citizens overwhelmingly want to legislate new immigration laws, they have the path to do so, but they would rather scream, protest, riot and moan about it rather than any productive change.

Innocent people are going to get hurt, collateral damage. Everybody screams about it, but very few recognize how many innocent people have been harmed or murdered by illegals. Daily publications and reports about deportations, but very, very few reports about the https://americanskilledbyillegals.org

Our Countries should head the lesson that Trump is teaching us about immigration laws. Remember when a late night stroll was safe in Stockholm, Oslo, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Athens, etc?

Nothing wrong with feeding a stray so they don't starve, but finish the job by helping them get back home.

Complete nonsense. You do realise that Obama deported more illegal immigrants than Trump has ever done? He just did it without paramilitary, masked up goons terrorising whole cities. And here, I'll even give you a news source that you can't call call 'fake news' (although I personally would) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/deporter-in-chief-obama-surpassed-deportations-under-trumps-first-term

And whilst we are at it, it's still VERY safe to take a 'late night stroll....... in Stockholm, Oslo, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Athens, etc' unless of course you're dumb enough to do it in a particulalrly poor neighborhood.

35 minutes ago, dinsdale said:

Indeed. This of course is a dictate from the modern left.

You have left and right on the brain, you should see someone about that

5 minutes ago, JBChiangRai said:

You have left and right on the brain, you should see someone about that

Nope. If anything on many things I'm centre left. What I'm not is a radical woke leftist or a sheeple that believes what MSM says is the truth.

7 hours ago, JimHuaHin said:

Are we referring to Trump's USA, Hitler's Germany, Stalin's Russia or Pol Pot's Kampuchea? Is there any difference between them?

While certainly the factual degrees of oppression differ … all can be said to be condemned.

Time to throw the UN out of the USA.

I'd suggest Mogadishu as their next base.

With or without Trump, UN is house of clowns. Nothing else.

I stopped reading after the UN was mentioned. Another total waste of space just like the WHO

17 hours ago, dinsdale said:

Nope. If anything on many things I'm centre left. What I'm not is a radical woke leftist or a sheeple that believes what MSM says is the truth.

Radical - check!

Woke - check!

Leftist - check!

Sheeple - check!

Fake MSM - check!

BINGO! I’ve just got MAGA bingo!

The bulldog with rubber teeth is barking again.

Google AI points out some of the 'members' of said committee, are from these countries, where Muslims kill different Muslims, gays & women are 2nd class citizens, and have had civil wars based on nothing but bigotry. Let's listen to their opinions

Reads more like, please open your borders back up, so we can get rid of a few people, instead of being forced to take them back

On 3/14/2026 at 4:17 PM, johnnybangkok said:

Complete nonsense. You do realise that Obama deported more illegal immigrants than Trump has ever done? He just did it without paramilitary, masked up goons terrorising whole cities. And here, I'll even give you a news source that you can't call call 'fake news' (although I personally would) https://www.foxnews.com/politics/deporter-in-chief-obama-surpassed-deportations-under-trumps-first-term

And whilst we are at it, it's still VERY safe to take a 'late night stroll....... in Stockholm, Oslo, London, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, Madrid, Athens, etc' unless of course you're dumb enough to do it in a particulalrly poor neighborhood.

DO you realize the the Bama conducted most of his enforcement at the Border, whereas, the Don is focusing on the entrenched illegals that the Bama allowed to exist. Trump has decreased the border crossings 90%. Thus focusing on the entrenched illegals. Obviously, more resources and time required to do such.

Obama's administration deported more people than Trump's, with approximately 612,706 deportations in 2013 compared to around 540,000 during the early part of Trump's second term. However, their methods differed significantly, with Obama focusing more on border arrests and Trump on interior enforcement.

"Unless you are dumb enough to wander into poor neighborhoods", like where most of the illegal and criminal aliens exist.

Well, Trump has realized that by evicting the illegal workers who were 40% of the workforce, farmers have trouble picking crops. USA nationals won't do this work.

Despite the availability of visas, the agricultural industry has experienced chronic labor shortages, leading to increased efforts to bring in more foreign labor while concurrently enforcing stricter immigration policies for unauthorized workers. Still can't find enough.

In early 2026, the federal government sought to balance strict immigration enforcement with the economic need for farm labor. While increasing deportations, the administration has eased up on agricultural workplace raids and encouraged the use of the H-2A program.

But they still don't have enough people. Balancing strict enforcement means finding a compromise to allow foreign agricultural workers to enter.

The UN can stop interfering in our country they can take a long walk off a short pier

USA don’t need the UN they need us.

I hope we ditch them

3 hours ago, Zimar said:

DO you realize the the Bama conducted most of his enforcement at the Border, whereas, the Don is focusing on the entrenched illegals that the Bama allowed to exist. Trump has decreased the border crossings 90%. Thus focusing on the entrenched illegals. Obviously, more resources and time required to do such.

Obama's administration deported more people than Trump's, with approximately 612,706 deportations in 2013 compared to around 540,000 during the early part of Trump's second term. However, their methods differed significantly, with Obama focusing more on border arrests and Trump on interior enforcement.

"Unless you are dumb enough to wander into poor neighborhoods", like where most of the illegal and criminal aliens exist.

You are refering to interior deportations against border returns correct? Yes Obama did benefit more from this because his priority was to return illegals who were new arrivals in the US over those that had been 'in-country' for longer periods and had family and jobs and a life but it also didn't stop him also focusing on criminals (remember the part Trump promised to do) with a zero tolerance approach to them. The numbers are hard to explain in one post but if you're really interested then it's all here https://www.migrationpolicy.org/article/obama-record-deportations-deporter-chief-or-not

And I would also suggest the real 'criminal' element these days aren't in poor neighborhoods - they're in penthouses in Manhatten or detached mansions in Belgravia.