Donald Trump gets first blow from his own Senate
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WASHINGTON: A bill introduced in the US Senate seeks to ban religious, racial and discriminatory profiling and argues that the Trump administration’s so-called Muslim ban encourages such negative practices.
The latest version of the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act (ERRPA) of 2017 says that law enforcement actions based on discriminatory profiling – like the Muslim Ban – are not only counter to core American values, but are also ineffective.
US Senator Ben Cardin, along with more than two dozen original cosponsors, introduced the updated version of this legislation in the Senate, seeking to ban discriminatory profiling by all levels of law enforcement nationwide.
The bill is designed to enforce the constitutional right to equal protection of laws through changing policies and procedures for law enforcement and by promoting best practices in community-based law enforcement.
“The international chaos caused by President Trump’s rushed and ill-conceived executive order targeting Muslim refugees and travellers is wrong and runs counter to American values,” says Senator Cardin, a senior Democrat in the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.
