Feds: Racial profiling is bad…except at airports and the border

*These new rules apply to immigration agents. U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX) asked the obvious question:  “How can race help a Border Patrol agent or customs officer do a better job in a city like El Paso, where 85 percent of the people are Hispanic?” VL

By Dara Lind, Vox

  1. The Department of Justice released a new policy on December 8th on when federal agents are allowed to use profiling.
  2. Federal law enforcement agents will, in most cases, no longer be allowed to consider religion, national origin, gender and gender identity, or sexual orientation when deciding whether to investigate someone. (It was already illegal in most cases for agents to consider race.)
  3. Federal agents will still be allowed to profile people “in the vicinity of the border.” Under the old profiling policy, “the border” was defined as anywhere within 100 miles of a land or sea border — but it’s not clear whether the “vicinity of the border” applies to that whole area, or to a more limited part of it.

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[Photo by U.S. Customs and Border Pr/Flickr]

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