Racial Profiling after HB 56

Racial Profiling after HB 56 (click to view report)

Racial Profiling after HB 56, a report from the National Immigration Law Center, reveals that anti-Latino discrimination is alive and well in Alabama and has apparently received a seal of approval from the governor and the state legislature. The report explores breadth and depth of this discrimination are explored through an analysis of more than 6,000 calls received by a statewide hotline that civil rights organizations established so that people could report the civil rights violations in the wake of the law's enactment. The report also states that there were many reports of civil rights violations.  

According to Racial Profiling after HB 56, the calls to the hotline revealed "three dangerous trends" in Alabama following implementation of the law:  

1. The law has created "a damaging and unconstitutional environment of racial profiling by law enforcement officials."  
2. This "state-sanctioned discrimination" is encouraging "private citizens to discriminate against and abuse people they suspect may be 'foreign.'"  
3. The provision of the law "requiring Alabama school officials to determine the immigration status of enrolled students (or that of their parents) has discouraged children of color from attending school and encouraged discrimination in the schools based on students' appearance and perceived ethnicity." 

Racial Profiling after HB 56 (click to view report)