Appearance Is the Trigger — Ethnic and Racial Profiling

An Invitation to Usha Vance to bring her kids to Minneapolis

Let’s unpack the lies. If JD Vance insists that ICE is not racially profiling people in Minneapolis, the test is straightforward and grounded in common sense: send his wife, Usha, and their children — who are brown — into a neighborhood where ICE is actively operating, for one hour, without identification and without security. What would follow are Kavanaugh Stops — encounters initiated not by behavior or probable cause, but by appearance, assumption and unchecked authority. Based on what has already been documented in Minnesota, including U.S. citizens and off-duty law-enforcement officers of color being stopped, questioned or detained solely because of how they look, the outcome is not hypothetical. If profiling were not occurring, nothing would happen. The fact that everyone knows exactly what would happen is the evidence. This is not rhetoric. It is observable reality. This must stop by Groundhog Day. Enough.