Advocacy Efforts Defeat Racial Profiling Amendments in Mark up; Problematic Graham Amendment Passes

    WASHINGTON, D.C., May 21, 2013 – A number of amendments that would have caused increased forms of racial profiling, if they were passed into law, were defeated earlier thi...[Read more]

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    Faces of Racial Profiling: Fahd Shares DRUM's Story of Racial Profiling and Surveillance

    Since 9/11, Muslims in New York City and other cities and states in the Northeast have faced a systemic pattern of surveillance by...[Read more]

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    Victory in Colorado: SB 90 Repealed!

    Passed in 2006, SB 90 required police to report people suspected to be undocumented to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the time of arrest. On April 26...[Read more]

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    Lou Dobbs to resign from CNN after pressure by advocacy groups

    After facing intense pressure for his anti-immigration rhetoric, Lou Dobbs announced his resignation last night to his viewers. He will be replaced by John King.

    Esmeralda: A transgender asylum seeker speaks out against immigration detention

    Courage comes in many different forms. For Esmeralda a transgender asylum seeker from Mexico who faced horrific circumstances in immigration detention, it came in the form of seeking justice. Kept in a segregated cell with other transgender detainees, Esmeralda never realized that her experience in detention would match the trauma of discrimination she had faced back home. But her story is also one of hope for change.

    A spotlight on race relations brings change in small ways

    November 7th 2009 marked one year from the day that Marcelo Lucero, an Ecuadorian immigrant, was killed in the Long Island suburb of Patchogue. But rather than act as a stand-alone instance, the act of violence put a national spotlight on race relations and has emerged as one among dozens of cases of violence against Latinos in Suffolk County over the past ten years.

    Racial Profiling in Los Angeles

    In August 2008, the ACLU of Southern California released an analysis, prepared by economist and Yale University Professor Ian Ayres, of the data collected through the federal consent decree over the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). Prof.