India, Sept. 11 -- The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the federal public security agency, deleted a social media post following backlash for racially profiling Sikh Americans and criticism from around a dozen lawmakers and civil society groups.

"Get off our roads, you don't know how to drive Mr. Singh," read a tagline of the DHS post, featuring an image of a South Asian, presumably Sikh man. "America for the Americans," said another tagline in the post, which garnered millions of views before it was taken down.

Sikh-Americans, and particularly those in the trucking industry, have been at the centre of a controversy since 2025, following a pair of road accidents involving Sikh truck drivers. Conservative politicians and influe...