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    Victory in Colorado: SB 90 Repealed!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]

    Creating Change Conference #CC13

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    January 23-27, 2013—Atlanta, GA.

    MPI Report Highlights Dramatic Rise in Immigration Enforcement Funding

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    A new report released this month deals a significant blow to conservative voices in Congress that are calling for toughened border security and stepped up enforcement as as the Obama Administration confirms that immigration reform

    Judge Finds Some NYC Stop-and-Frisk Practices Unconstitutional

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    New York City – A federal judge ruled that the New York Police Department’s practice of stopping and searching people when they leave privately owned apartment buildings in the Bronx under an assumption that they’re trespassing is unconstitutional, the New York Times reported.

    287(g) Must Go! RWG Members Take Action to End Discriminatory Program

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    287(g) is a discriminatory immigration enforcement program that has been proven to result in racial profiling. But instead of ending the program, DHS is planning to expand the program next year to 11 new jurisdictions. 

    Measuring Freedom

    Mittens and the President spent debates one and two trying to out chest thump each other about China.  There’s more to come in the final debate, where fifteen minutes have been set aside for “the rise of China and tomorrow’s world.” On one level, the men are debating economic policy. On another level, they’re positing China as a threat, to show they are the one better able to protect the country from the new yellow peril.