- Contact your representatives in Congress and the President
- Write a letter to an editor
- Blog
- Call a radio show
- Urge the government to:
- Pass the End Racial Profiling Act to prohibit profiling on all grounds, with no exceptions for national security.
- Revise the Department of Justice Federal Guidance on Racial Profiling by eliminating the border and national security loopholes, including profiling based on religion and ethnic origin, and making the Guidance enforceable.
- Eliminate discriminatory Department of Homeland Security programs, including the 287(g) program and the NSEERS program.
- Limit border and immigration agents’ discretion and provide training to discourage discriminatory profiling.
- Comprehensively review all government databases and watch lists to remove individuals who have been wrongfully included.
- Develop an effective redress mechanism for people who have been either mistakenly placed on, or linked to, a watch list or database.
- Respect and ensure U.S. human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.
Educate yourself and others in your community about the rights you have when you are stopped, questioned, or detained by police, immigration and border officials, or the FBI:
- http://www.aclu.org/files/kyr/kyr_english.pdf
- http://www.muslimadvocates.org/get_involved/got_rights.html
Additional Resources
- Targeted & Entrapped: Islamophobia, Human Rights, and Manufacturing 'the Homegrown Threat'
Since September 11, 2001, the U.S. government has targeted Muslims in the United States by sending paid, untrained informants into mosques and Muslim communities. This Report examines three high-profile terrorism prosecutions in which government informants played a critical role in instigating and constructing the plots that were then prosecuted.
- Under the Radar: Muslims Deported, Detained, and Denied on Unsubstantiated Terrorism Allegations
Through the targeted use of a wide set of immigration and law enforcement policies and actions, the U.S. government has cast Muslims as dangerous threats to national security, leaving Muslim communities across the United States vulnerable to discrimination and discriminatory profiling. This Briefing Paper draws on interviews with immigration and criminal defense attorneys and community-based groups, court documents, and media accounts to identify key under-documented patterns of government practices that appear to be targeting Muslim communities through the immigration system.
Organize your communities to end racial profiling:
