Racial Profiling Hearing Preliminary Report
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Tarsha Jackson
Jun 27, 2010, 4:30:31 PM6/27/10
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Greetings,
Attached is a draft of the preliminary report from the racial profiling hearing. The final reports and transcripts will be available once the final hearing has been complete. Thank you all for your hard work.
Solidarity,
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Attached is a draft of the preliminary report from the racial profiling hearing. The final reports and transcripts will be available once the final hearing has been complete. Thank you all for your hard work.
Solidarity,
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Tarsha Jackson
Grassroots Leadership
Houston, TX
832-837-3284
www.grassrootsleadership.org
Check out www.texasprisonbidness.org for news and info on the private prison industry in Texas
maria jimenez
Jun 27, 2010, 10:27:00 PM6/27/10
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I find the initial draft very poor with respect to the immigrant experiences brought before the panel.
I am particularly disturbed that the testimonies for immigrants (which were written and signed testimonies) were so severely summarized as to make their experiences insignificant. As summarized, they blur details, poorly convey the experience and are without names.
The testimony that was read into the record is not mentioned at all and that was also sent in a signed written testimony. (The woman could not be present at the last minute due to a serious accident in her family). But she wanted her story known.
None requested their names be withheld or testimonies excluded and all risked to be there and have their stories told.
All the immigrant testimonies were recent or within two years which are important for policy makers to see that this is happening now.
As is, it is a disservice to their courage and willingness to come forward to report them with such vagueness and as invisible persons. It is disrespectful to treat their efforts to be there with such insensitivity to thier desire to bear witness and step forward to end such injustices.
If the draft remains as is, then the hearings have done nothing more than ignore the gravity of current enforcement practices that negate human dignity and so violently violate human rights and thus, contribute little to alleviate them.
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:30:31 -0500
Subject: [Coalition] Racial Profiling Hearing Preliminary Report
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I am particularly disturbed that the testimonies for immigrants (which were written and signed testimonies) were so severely summarized as to make their experiences insignificant. As summarized, they blur details, poorly convey the experience and are without names.
The testimony that was read into the record is not mentioned at all and that was also sent in a signed written testimony. (The woman could not be present at the last minute due to a serious accident in her family). But she wanted her story known.
None requested their names be withheld or testimonies excluded and all risked to be there and have their stories told.
All the immigrant testimonies were recent or within two years which are important for policy makers to see that this is happening now.
As is, it is a disservice to their courage and willingness to come forward to report them with such vagueness and as invisible persons. It is disrespectful to treat their efforts to be there with such insensitivity to thier desire to bear witness and step forward to end such injustices.
If the draft remains as is, then the hearings have done nothing more than ignore the gravity of current enforcement practices that negate human dignity and so violently violate human rights and thus, contribute little to alleviate them.
Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:30:31 -0500
Subject: [Coalition] Racial Profiling Hearing Preliminary Report
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Tarsha Jackson
Jun 27, 2010, 10:56:53 PM6/27/10
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As I stated this is just a draft that I created to give those who did not attend the hearing a snap shot of the type of testimonies given during the hearing. The RWG will submit a complete report once all the hearings are complete, which will include the Commissioners report and complete detail testimonies. I am gathering this information from my notes and will add the written testimonies on the next draft. Please feel free to add any comments or suggestions on the draft report.
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