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    Victory in Colorado: SB 90 Repealed!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]

    287(g) Comes Knocking on the Front Door

    Driving to church in February 2009, Alejandra and her family were hit by another car.

    Shopping While Latino?

    A young man named Jonathan was shopping at Macy’s for jewelry for his girlfriend when he started being followed by a security guard.

    “It was obvious he pulled me over because of how I looked”

    On June 22, 2009, around 8 p.m., Edgar was on the way home from his girlfriend’s

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    Are you an authentic American?


    “Police officers giving drivers $204 tickets for not speaking English? It sounds like a rejected Monty Python sketch. Except the grim reality is that it has happened at least 39 times in Dallas since January 2007….All but one of the drivers were Hispanic.”