On Monday, CBS Evening News highlighted a report on immigration in California that’s sole purpose was to generate fear of Immigration and Customs Enforcement not just in illegal immigrants, but in all Hispanic-Americans. Correspondent Adam Yamaguchi, highlighting the unwarranted fear that some citizens were feeling that they could be deported, tried his best to reaffirm those fears by pointing to a California mayor who carries his passport with him.
He spoke with Pasadena, California Mayor Victor Gordo, who expressed his concerns that he, a legal U.S. citizen, might be deported:
There’s a very real, palpable sense of fear. If they look like an immigrant, then they`re suspect. What was the probable cause there, other than they had brown skin? It`s racial profiling. It's borderline stalking and hunting.
Yamaguchi also emphasized that Gordo did not go anywhere without his passport in case he was racially profiled.
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