
Anti-Immigrant Ordinance - State and local anti-immigrant ordinances
include mandating that English be the main or only language used; preventing
State employees from speaking Spanish at work; and requiring that taxi
drivers be "English proficient" or else be subject to fines and/or
possible deportation. p. 76-77
Capital Punishment - A death sentence is four times more likely when
the victim is white rather than black, and blacks who kill whites are
11 times more likely to receive the death penalty than whites who kill
blacks. p. 107-108
Voter Disfranchisement - The U.S. Report fails to mention the Department
of Justice's pre-clearance of repressive new laws that require voters
to present identification, including picture identification, at the
polls on election day, as those in force in Georgia, even though the
Georgia law was held by a federal court to be a poll tax. p. 127
Racial Discrimination in Schools - Georgia spends twice as much per
prisoner as per public school pupil. As a result, a disproportionate
number of black (88%) and Latino (86%) fourth graders could not read
at grade level in 2005. Only 79% of Georgia's 2,071 schools met the
performance targets required under NCLB. p. 141
Disparities in School Discipline - In 2004, black students had a
suspension rate of 13.5%, as compared to 5.8% for Latino students and
5.2% for white students. p. 147
Racial Profiling - Between December 2003 and May 2005, a Drug Enforcement
Administration-led regional anti-drug task force conducted an initiative
called "Operation Meth Merchant" and employed suspected methamphetamine
users as "confidential informants" to target local South Asian merchants
and shop-workers. Given that South Asians constitute less than 2% of
the population in the affected area, and only 19.3% of the stores in
the relevant area are owned or managed by persons of South Asian descent,
this racial group was over 95 times more likely to be targeted by law
enforcement than similarly situated white merchants. p. 64-65
Worksite Raids - Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
has begun arresting immigrants through massive raids at workplaces
and residences without judicial warrants and based on insubstantial
evidence of undocumented status, often no more than racial profiling.
In August 2006, several hundred immigrant employees at a poultry plant
in Stillmore were arrested in an ICE raid. This left Stillmore with
less than 25% of its mostly Hispanic 900-member work force. p. 73