Advisory: CHC, CBC, CAPAC, CPC, Sen. Cardin, and Rep. Conyers to Hold Press Conference on Profiling

CHC, CBC, CAPAC, CPC, Sen. Cardin, and Rep. Conyers to Hold Press Conference on Profiling

WASHINGTON— Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC) Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX), Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus Rep. Marcia L. Fudge (D-OH), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC) Judy Chu (D-CA.), and Co-Chairs of the Progressive Caucus (CPC) Reps. Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ.) and Reps. Keith Ellison (D-MN.) will join Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD) to hold a press conference on Wednesday, June 25th to call on the Obama Administration to issue improved profiling guidance for federal law enforcement that closes current loopholes.

Caucus leaders and civil rights advocates will highlight how federal law enforcement profiling affects racial, religious and ethnic minorities in America. Latino, African-American and Sikh-American victims of profiling will share how the discriminatory practice has affected them personally, and will be joined by the authors of the End Racial Profiling Act (S. 1038 / H.R. 2851) Senator Cardin and Rep. John Conyers (D-MI).  

CHC, CBC, CAPAC, and CPC leaders recently sent a letter to the Attorney General on the issue.

WHAT:          CHC, CBC, CAPAC, CPC, Sen. Cardin, and Rep. Conyers to Hold Press Conference on Profiling                     

WHO:            Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD, Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ), CPC Co-Chair, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN), CPC Co-Chair, Rep. Marcia Fudge (D-OH), CBC Chair, Rep. Rubén Hinojosa (D-TX), CHC Chair, Rep. Judy Chu (D-CA), CAPAC Chair, Rep. John Conyers (D-CA), Ranking Member, Committee on Judiciary, and Three victims of profiling

WHEN:        Wednesday, June 25th, 11am EST

WHERE:      House Triangle, Located at the corner of New Jersey Avenue SE and Independence Avenue SE

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