Race & Ethnicity Policy Team

@CAPTalksRace

Race and Ethnicity is a policy team of Center for American Progress that develops new ideas for an increasingly diverse America.

Washington D.C
Vrijeme pridruživanja: veljača 2010.

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    🚨NEW 🚨 We're counting down to election day by cataloging 365 actions the Trump Administration has implemented or proposed to harm communities of color.

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  2. The Trump admin granted the director of the authority to unilaterally decide immigration cases on appeal. Because the director is a politically appointed position, this threatens the independence of immigration judges.

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  3. After an earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, the U.S. granted a small number of worker visas to Haitian nationals. But in 2018, Trump reportedly remarked that the country was a “shithole” and barred Haitians from accessing visa programs.

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  4. Trump shut down the federal government for 5 weeks to secure funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. This action cost the U.S. economy $11 billion and jeopardized the financial security of more than 228,000 federal employees of color.

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  5. Private prisons are less safe, more expensive, and do not provide adequate correctional services compared with facilities run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Between 2002 and 2017, the private prison immigrant population grew by 442%.

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  6. The Trump administration is using border patrol agents to screen asylum applicants because they believe asylum officers are too “soft.” Thousands of asylum applicants are currently fleeing countries with the highest murder rates in the world.

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  7. In its 2020 budget request, the Trump administration tried to cut funding for the U.S. Department of Education’s special programs for Native American children by $4 million.

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  8. The Trump administration attempted to withhold funds for combating the opioid crisis from the city of Philadelphia due to its sanctuary city policies, which protect immigrants.

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  9. Legacy admissions are another obstacle a disproportionate # of students of color must overcome to gain admissions in elite universities. If schools want to ensure equal access to their campuses, ending legacy admissions preference is a step in the right direction.

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  10. removed the policy and over time their freshman classes became more racially + economically diverse AND more high-achieving. You can read more about that process here:

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  11. The impact of this discrimination can be seen today. 90% of legacy admits are white. A small # of students of color may benefit from the legacy preference policy, but the discriminatory impact of legacy admissions remains the same.

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  12. During the 1920s, elite universities first instituted the policy to limit the number of Jewish & immigrant students on campus. White Anglo-Saxon protestants remained the majority of alumni so admissions counselors now had an excuse to deny otherwise qualified students admission.

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  13. NEW COLUMN RELEASE: Legacy admissions preference is an outdated admissions policy that disproportionately benefits white wealthy families. If universities are serious about making their admissions process more equitable, they should remove it. Here's why:

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  14. Under the Trump administration, upheld fewer than 2 in 10 complaints of racial harassment, compared with a rate of 31% under the Obama administration.

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  15. The Trump administration is no longer allowing asylum applicants to wait in the U.S. while their asylum claims are processed. Now, the U.S. will force asylum applicants to wait in Mexico, where many Central Americans are experiencing violence.

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  16. Black teenagers are arrested at higher rates than white teenagers. The Trump admin dissolved the research arm—the only federal office that consistently compiled data on racial patterns in juvenile arrests and incarceration.

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  17. Trump’s many attempts to end TPS for immigrants from Sudan, Nicaragua, Haiti, El Salvador, Nepal, and Honduras have put hundreds of thousands of immigrants in legal limbo. These recipients represent 98 % of individuals protected under TPS.

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  18. Drug laws disproportionately affect Black Americans. Despite clear racial disparities, the Trump administration is instructing federal prosecutors to pursue the death penalty in both violent and nonviolent drug cases.

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  19. The Trump admin scaled back investigations of systemic civil rights violations by school districts & colleges. The result? is auditing to determine if the division is appropriately dismissing discrimination complaints

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  20. Consent decrees are agreements between the and local governments to address systemic racism + abuses of power by law enforcement. The Trump admin directed the DOJ to examine and possibly end participation in the agreements.

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  21. The Trump admin is denying asylum protections at the southern border for anyone who passes through another country on their way to the U.S. The rule essentially prevents Central Americans from applying for asylum.

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