Al Sharpton Says It’s Racist to Deport Criminal Illegal Immigrants: They’re Looking for People of a Certain Black or Brown Color

BRZEZINSKI: “NBC’s Garrett Haake reporting. So, a lot of activity this morning. We’re working on corroborating. But, rev, I’m just curious what you think of so far, how this is being rolled out. Of course, Donald Trump talked about this in the campaign. Not shocking, but disturbing to some. And quoting the new White House press secretary, it’s part of a tweet that she put out, ‘If you illegally enter the United States of America, you will face severe consequences.’ So sending a very extreme message to a lot of people who are really scared.”
SHARPTON: “Very, very, very scared. And I might add that when you look at the fact there’s a very serious element of profiling here, that we’re looking for people of a certain black or brown color, or when we’re looking at the fact that this is a president who has told law enforcement, ‘Be tough on people and don’t even put their heads down when you’re throwing them into a police van,’ he’s openly endorsed police brutality, so I would assume that would go with ICE as well. It’s a nightmare for the civil liberties and civil rights of people, coming on the back of him, trying to deal with those that are born here being denied citizenship, going back to the Dred Scott decision. So I think that if this was a cocktail, it would be all of the toxic, poisonous things you would not want to drink. And I think that he’s doing this and he hasn’t even been president for a week.”