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.
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.
