President Trump's immigration comments may incite hate crimes, UN watchdog says

The BBC reports that a United Nations committee has warned that "racist hate speech" used by President Donald Trump and other US politicians has fueled human rights violations.

A report by the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD), a UN-backed panel of independent experts, urged the US to respect international law and review its human rights policies. According to the report, "[t]he Committee was deeply disturbed by the growing use of derogatory and dehumanizing language, and the dissemination of negative and harmful stereotypes targeting migrants, refugees, and asylum seekers. `Portraying them as criminals or as a burden, by politicians and influential public figures at the highest level, particularly the President,' the Committee said, `may incite racial discrimination and hate crimes.'”