Ban Racial Profiling by Law Enforcement and Limit Federal Abuses Action Alert

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Maryland must take affirmative action to ensure existing protections against racial profiling are not eroded and to protect Marylanders from racial profiling and other abuses by federal agents to the maximum extent allowable by law. The US Supreme Court's continued dismantling of bedrock constitutional rights demands that the General Assembly take swift action to codify essential protections against racial profiling in our state law (SB 854/HB 1262).

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Governor Wes Moore

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Subject Ban racial profiling in Maryland this session!

Racial profiling violates the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments and undermines public safety and community trust in Maryland. For over a year, federal agents have been acting lawlessly across American cities by violating existing protections, racially profiling residents and committing abuses without consequence. When law enforcement targets someone based on that person's perceived or actual race, ethnicity, nationality or religion, rather than evidence of criminal activity, they are engaging in racial profiling.

This lawless behavior by federal agents made 2025 Immigration and Customs Enforcement's deadliest year in two decades. There have been 16 shootings by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officers since July 2025, including one in Glen Burnie. These abuses have only escalated under the Trump administration, emboldened by the U.S. Supreme Court's (SCOTUS) refusal to check federal abuses. Worse, their lawlessness sends the wrong message to state and local law enforcement.

Tell your legislators to ban racial profiling by ALL law enforcement in Maryland.

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Countless Marylanders like me are horrified to see the extreme levels of abuses by the federal government and all the people being stopped, harassed, and even arrested because of the color of their skin. As recent events have plainly shown, Maryland must take affirmative steps now to ensure existing protections against racial profiling are not eroded here.

The evidence is clear. Federal agents are flooding American cities across the country and not being held accountable. We are witnessing in real time their abuses of authority as they engage in blatant racial profiling, illegal and baseless arrests, and excessive force against people. This does not make our communities safer - it makes us fearful. DHS and ICE agents are routinely defying court orders and engaging in mass civil rights violations &ndash; as seen recently in Minnesota, where two legal observers were killed by agents, and in Los Angelos where a father of two was fatally shot by an off-duty ICE agent. In addition, ICE's operation in Los Angeles showed agents sweeping up, brutalizing, and detaining anyone who looked Latino at Home Depots, farms, and car washes.  The U.S. Supreme Court overruled two courts that tried to stop these abuses and constitutional violations.  If ICE can operate this way in California, it will do the same in Maryland. These abuses have been documented around the country. Alarmingly, a recent memo to ICE agents directs them to enter homes and private spaces without a judicial warrant.

These abuses have only escalated and are emboldened by the U.S. Supreme Court's continued dismantling of bedrock constitutional rights and refusal to check federal abuses. We need this bill. Without clear state-level protections, federal rulings can weaken how our rights are protected in Maryland. Although we cannot prevent federal law enforcement from enforcing federal law, we can make clear that to rely on Maryland law in their activities, federal agents are subject to the same standards that apply to all other law enforcement officers operating in Maryland.

You have the power to protect Marylanders from being racially profiled and limit federal abuses by law enforcement. This moment calls for every one of us to have courage in the wake of this lawless administration. Maryland must take affirmative steps to ensure existing protections against racial profiling are not eroded, and to protect Marylanders from racial profiling and other abuses by federal agents to the maximum extent allowable by law. Please protect us and our neighbors from being targeted because of the color of their skin, how they look or how they speak, and pass a clean ban on racial profiling by law enforcement this legislative session.

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