{"id":3574,"date":"2015-09-10T12:00:35","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T12:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/site\/?p=3574"},"modified":"2016-12-14T07:52:27","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T07:52:27","slug":"oppose-sb-249-hueso-high-tech-discrimination-against-immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2015\/09\/10\/oppose-sb-249-hueso-high-tech-discrimination-against-immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":"OPPOSE SB 249 (Hueso): High-Tech Discrimination Against Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FLOOR ALERT<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>OPPOSE SB 249 (Hueso)<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>High-Tech Discrimination Against Immigrants<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">Distributed September 10, 2015<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Late amendments <\/strong><strong>remove the basic safeguards necessary to prohibit discrimination against immigrants and protect against privacy invasions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>SB 249<\/strong> would allow the DMV to issue \u201cenhanced\u201d driver\u2019s licenses (EDLs) that allow police to find out a person\u2019s race, age, gender, citizenship status, and more from up to 30 feet away without the cardholder\u2019s knowledge.\u00a0 These licenses contain an RFID chip that broadcasts personally identifying information and can be used to find out if the cardholder has ever been arrested.\u00a0 Speeding up passage across the border sounds good, but not at the cost of privacy rights and discrimination against non-citizens.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Late amendments let employers discriminate against immigrants.<\/strong> EDLs are a new citizens-only driver\u2019s license.\u00a0 As amended, SB 249 would allow employers to require that employees have an EDL to get or keep their jobs \u2013 allowing them to refuse employment to any immigrant that has not become a naturalized citizen.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>SB 249 now gives law enforcement a new tool to engage in racial profiling. <\/strong>EDLs link a person\u2019s criminal background check to their driver\u2019s license and broadcast personal information to law enforcement and anyone who has an inexpensive device you can make at home. That means that police officers can know a person\u2019s race, citizenship status, and whether you\u2019ve been arrested before they can even see the person. Racial profiling in police stops is already a huge problem without making the problem worse by giving police the ability to collect sensitive personal information before deciding who to stop and when.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Late amendments deleted important privacy protections. <\/strong>Other states ensure that RFID information is encrypted or otherwise protected from unauthorized access. Last minute amendments to SB 249 deleted this provision.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>VOTE NO ON SB 249<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>SB 249 is Opposed By:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>American Civil Liberties Union of California<\/p>\n<p>Asian Law Alliance<\/p>\n<p>CAIR California<\/p>\n<p>Equal Rights Advocates<\/p>\n<p>Legal Services for Prisoners with Children<\/p>\n<p>National Center for Lesbian Rights<\/p>\n<p>Root &amp; Rebound<\/p>\n<p>San Jose Peace &amp; Justice Center<\/p>\n<p>The Multiracial Activist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FLOOR ALERT OPPOSE SB 249 (Hueso) High-Tech Discrimination Against Immigrants Distributed September 10, 2015 &nbsp; Late amendments remove the basic safeguards necessary to prohibit discrimination against immigrants and protect against privacy invasions &nbsp; SB&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":4169,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[60,9],"tags":[142,93,91],"class_list":["post-3574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-letters-to-government-agencies-signed-by-tma","category-advocacy-and-letters","tag-advocacy-letters","tag-california","tag-privacy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-VE","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Advocacy-Work.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3575,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3574\/revisions\/3575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}