Texas Gives the Green Light to Racial Profiling
Style Magazine Newswire | 6/30/2017, 9:41 a.m.
Protest against SB4 at Texas Capitol
Source: HuffingtonPost.com
A judge in San Antonio heard opening arguments on a lawsuit against Senate Bill 4, a law passed in Texas last month that is the single biggest attack on immigrants this country has seen in decades. SB 4 commands police to search the papers of anyone who looks like an immigrant and levels hefty fines and even jail time for law enforcement officers who resist. But SB 4 is not just an anti-immigrant law. At its core, it is a racial profiling law, meant to strike fear into any person of color anywhere in the state. It is a Jim Crow law, explicitly designed to submit black and brown Texans to a different code of law than their Caucasian counterparts. In Texas, immigrant rights advocates weren’t the only ones who stood up against the law. They were joined by the NAACP, the National Black Justice Coalition, Black Lives Matter, and scores of black faith leaders. .
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