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A new report released this month deals a significant blow to conservative voices in Congress that are calling for toughened border security and stepped up enforcement as as the Obama Administration confirms that immigration reform

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Over 100 people marched in a youth-organized march in Providence, RI urging state legislators to pass the Comprehensive Racial Profiling Prevention Act. The organizers of the May 23rd march feel that everyday people of color in their communities continue to be targeted, searched, and harassed by police--the very people who are supposed to protect them. As Charlie Chhum, a youth organizer from PrYSM notes, “We cannot wait any longer.

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After 9/11, the authority and discretion of border patrol has expanded. Post-9/11 resources toward border security have increased, making border patrol now able  to maximize their authority to search, question and detain people within 100 miles of all land and sea borders. 

A number of policy changes since 9/11 have meant more federal resources for border enforcement programs:

·         Operation Stonegarden provides grants to local police to do the federal government’s job of maintaining border security. 

Sarnata Reynolds, March 30, 2010 -- On February 22, James Chaparro’s sixth day on the job as the head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) behemoth detention and removal operation, he issued a memo directing all ICE field office directors to collectively identify, detain and deport 400,000 individuals in 2010.