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Mexicans in US routinely confront legal abuse, racial profiling, ICE targeting and other civil rights violations

  • Written by David FitzGerald, Theodore E. Gildred Chair in U.S.-Mexican Relations, Professor of Sociology, and Co-Director of the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California San Diego
The civil rights of 11.3 million Mexican nationals who live in the US are routinely violated, according to a comprehensive new report on U.S. immigration enforcement since 2009.AP Photo/Matt York

Officially, the Constitution of the United States gives everyone on U.S. soil equal protection under the law – regardless of nationality or legal...

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