UCLA scholars: Cut ties with ICE and end gang database to fight racism

by: William Hurley
Mar. 29, 2023
Source: The College Fix
04/07/2023

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A professor and a law fellow at the University of California Los Angeles want to see the state end ties with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and eliminate a gang database.

The demands are the results of a 28-page report meant to investigate ways to ameliorate racism against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders. Many examples in the report date back to 19th or early 20th century laws. The report appears to be partially funded from a $1.4 million grant allocated in 2021 to study hate incidents and crimes against Asians.

Professor Hiroshi Motomura and Law Fellow Astghik Hairapetian made their arguments in a report titled “Anti-AAPI racism in Immigration and Criminal Law.” Motomura is a former immigration adviser to President Barack Obama and Hairapetian specialized in “Critical Race Studies and International and Comparative Law,” as a law student at UCLA.

The report pointed out that early on “[e]xplicit anti-AAPI racism motivated early immigration and criminal statutes in both federal and California law.” For example, connecting immoral behavior such as prostitution to Asian women as a group.

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