The White House appears unbothered by a recent United Nations committee report that expressed deep concern over President Donald Trump’s “racist hate speech” toward immigrants, which they say contributed to a violation of human rights 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,” White House Spokesperson Olivia Wales said in a statement.
The report, published Wednesday by the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, found that Trump and other political leaders may have incited racial discrimination and hate crimes against migrants by using dehumanizing language and harmful stereotypes as well as portraying immigrants as criminals or burdens.
“No one cares what the biased United Nations’ so-called ‘experts’ think, because Americans are living in a safer, stronger country than ever before,” Wales said.
The committee’s report said that racist hate speech, combined with the aggressive immigration enforcement crackdown, had led to at least eight deaths, increased racial profiling, restricted migrants’ access to essential services and hindered due process rights.
It recommended the government suspend immigration enforcement, repeal discriminatory measures, review policies around Immigration and Customs Enforcement, ensure migrants obtain due process and adopt non-custodial measures for detainment, among other suggestions.
In response, Wales emphasized how the murder rate had declined.
“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,” Wales added.
Mass deportations and immigration enforcement have been central policies of the Trump administration and a defining aspect of its public messaging. The president has misrepresented immigrants as dangerous criminals who are being protected by Democratic-run cities while committing crimes. In reality, studies show undocumented immigrants are less likely to commit violent crime than U.S.-born citizens.
Trump has referred to immigrants as “dangerous,” “garbage,” “not people,” “animals,” and other degrading words. He’s characterized migration as an “invasion” and that immigrants are taking jobs from U.S. citizens.
Although the president campaigned and was elected on anti-immigration messaging, Americans have grown sour of the aggressive actions by federal agents.
Last year, videos and photos arose across social media, showing federal agents profiling day laborers to conduct arrests, violently entering homes and vehicles to forcibly remove people, and, in some cases, tear-gassing children.
At the same time, the White House used its social media platform to brag about deportations and downplayed the negative impact of them by taking videos of arrests and turning them into memes.
The nail in the coffin for many appeared to be the killing of two U.S. citizens in Minnesota, Renee Good and Alex Pretti, by federal agents.
Between June 2024 and June 2025, support for mass deportation of undocumented immigrants decreased by nine percentage points and opposition toward hiring more border patrol agents increased by 15 percentage points, according to Gallup.
Another poll from Reuters/Ipsos found that between February 2025 and February 2026, Trump’s approval rating on immigration dropped 12 percentage points.
But despite public disapproval and human rights violation warnings from the U.N. committee, the White House does not appear to have a plan in place to modify its immigration enforcement tactics.
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