"Denouncing federal immigration raids as a form of "ethnic cleansing," Rep. Maxine Waters and a group of U.S. citizens announced Monday that they were petitioning the United Nations to investigate the Trump administration sweeps for potential human rights violations. Sitting beside famed civil rights activist Delores Huerta, Waters told reporters that the crackdown was untenable and would tear the country apart if left unchecked. "When people are targeted because of how they look or the language they speak, the government is absolutely failing," Waters said. "We cannot rely upon the administration to police itself.""
"Filed partly on behalf of four U.S. citizens, including a pregnant woman who was shackled and detained during one raid, the petition accuses federal agents of waging a campaign of ''ethnic cleansing against Latino minorities in the United States," and calls on the U.N. Human Rights Council to appoint independent investigators to scrutinize "kidnapping arrests, prolonged detentions without due process of law and the brutal excessive use of force.""
A coalition of U.S. citizens and civil-rights advocates petitioned the U.N. Human Rights Council to investigate federal immigration raids as alleged ethnic cleansing targeting Latino minorities. The petition cites incidents including a pregnant woman who was shackled and detained and accuses agencies including DHS, ICE, Border Patrol and the FBI of kidnapping arrests, prolonged detentions without due process, and brutal excessive use of force. The filing requests independent investigators after domestic remedies allegedly failed. Federal immigration authorities dismissed the petition as a dangerous stunt, and the filing coincided with a scheduled presidential U.N. appearance.
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