Amid an ongoing controversy over the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s recent post on self-deportation, it posted a video of Harjinder Singh, an Indian-origin truck driver who was involved in a crash which killed three people in Florida.
Several lawmakers in the United States also called out the Trump administration for promoting a discriminatory and anti-Indian, anti-Sikh sentiment in the country. “Taking these posts down is not enough. Rep Adam Smith from Washington also called out the Trump administration for its “dangerous and unacceptable poster.
Whoever allowed this to happen should be fired,” the US rep said, adding that the poster attacked the Sikh community. “Hate crimes are rising, and the President should be bringing this country together, not stoking division,” Smith wrote on X.
California’s Governor Gavin Newsom also condemned the post, stating that the Trump government is “trafficking in racist propaganda. Senator Adam Schiff, from California, also stated that the DHS’s poster will cast suspicion on “millions of Americans based on their background and appearance. Hitting out at Governor Newsom, the DHS accused the Democratic leader of granting Harjinder Singh a CDL license.
