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#racial profiling

Law enforcement targeting individuals based on race, ethnicity, or national origin rather than evidence of criminal activity. Prohibited under the Equal Protection Clause and CERD, and a systemic feature of immigration enforcement operations.

2 incidents

Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

Systematic Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement and Wrongful Detention of US Citizens

Latinos account for 90% of ICE arrests, 76% of raids target majority-Latino neighborhoods, the Supreme Court has stayed an order barring stops based on apparent race, language, location and occupation, and at least 170 US citizens have been wrongfully detained — constituting systematic racial profiling in violation of equal protection and non-discrimination principles.

Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern

Trump Pardons Sheriff Joe Arpaio for Defying a Court Order Against Racial Profiling (2017)

A federal judge found Arpaio guilty of deliberately defying a court order meant to stop his deputies from detaining Latino drivers on immigration suspicion alone. Trump pardoned him before he could be sentenced, removing the courts' criminal sanction for an official's defiance of an order protecting constitutional rights.