The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) this week issued a scathing report about the Trump Administration, alleging that “racist hate speech by political leaders, including the President, combined with intensified immigration crackdowns in the United States, notably near schools, hospitals and faith-based institutions, has sparked grave human rights violations.”
The Committee also declared that they were “deeply disturbed by the growing use of derogatory and dehumanizing language, and the dissemination of negative and harmful stereotypes targeting migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers.”
USA: Racial profiling and racist hate speech by political leaders heightened human rights violations against migrants and asylum seekers, UN committee warns https://t.co/RFSmCTd0Ws
— Pablo Ceriani Cernadas (@Pabloceriani_) March 11, 2026
“Portraying them as criminals or as a burden, by politicians and influential public figures at the highest level, particularly the President,” the Committee said in the report, “may incite racial discrimination and hate crimes.”
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The committee also ripped ICE.
“The Committee also raised alarm that the lives and physical integrity of the above vulnerable groups are jeopardized by the excessive use of force and violence by enforcement officers during immigration operations,” the report said. “It cited that at least eight people have died since January 2026 during ICE operations or while in ICE custody, including protesters exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association and detained refugees, asylum seekers, and migrants.”
The White House quickly pushed back against the report.
The White House melted down after a U.N. watchdog issued an unprecedented rebuke of a sitting American president, accusing Donald Trump of using racist hate speech that has “sparked grave human rights violations.” https://t.co/EFuRcCiPeL
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) March 12, 2026
“No one cares what the biased United Nations’ so-called ‘experts’ think,” the White House said in a statement, per the Daily Beast.
Axios published a lengthier White House statement.
The UN’s “extreme bias continues to prove why no one takes them seriously,” White House spokesperson Olivia Wales told Axios.
“President Trump is delivering on his promise to make our country safe again: the murder rate has plummeted to a 125-year low, with last year marking the biggest one-year drop in recorded history, crime categories are dropping across the board, and we have the most secure border in history,” the statement said.
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