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    Lico Reyes

    [email protected]

    Wednesday, November 25, 2015 5:37 AM

    IMMIGRATION REPORT 11-25-2015 - Clinton promises never to say ‘illegal immigrants’ again! 

    Chair: Lico Reyes. 

    Daniel Morris, Lawyer; Terry Meza, Lawyer; Andrea Reyes, German Immigrant; Gonzalo

    Hidalgo, Chihuahua Mexico Liaison; Rudy Martinez; Edward Rodriguez, f ormer

    DEPORTATION OFFICER; Cyprain Engwenyi, Cameroon Africa; Lawrence Castillo,

    USW ( Steelworkers). 

     ______________________________________________________________________________

     _____________________________________________________________ 

    Clinton promises never to say ‘illegal immigrants’

    again 

    Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton at a campaign stop in Reno, Nev. (Photo: James Glover

    II/Reuters) 

    Hunter Walker

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     National Correspondent 

     November 24, 2015 

    https://www.yahoo.com/politics/hillary-clinton-says-it-was-a-poor-choice-of-190030383.html 

    Hillary Clinton addressed criticism of her use of the phrase “illegal immigrants” in a Facebook

    chat hosted by the Spanish-language television network Telemundo on Tuesday.

    The Democratic presidential frontrunner said it was a “poor choice of words” and vowed not touse the same language in the future. 

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    ; Pam Resendiz ; Luis Lara ; [email protected] ; Lawrence Castillo Subject: IMMIGRATION REPORT 11-07-2015 - Texas troopers ticketing Hispanic drivers as white. KXAN

    IMMIGRATION REPORT 11-07-2015 - Texas troopers ticketing Hispanic drivers as white. KXAN 

    LULAC TX IMMIGRATION Committee Members:

    Chair: Lico Reyes. 

    Daniel Morris, Lawyer; Terry Meza, Lawyer; Andrea Reyes, German Immigrant; Gonzalo

    Hidalgo, Chihuahua Mexico Liaison; Rudy Martinez; Edward Rodriguez, former DEPORTATION

    OFFICER; Cyprain Engwenyi, Cameroon Africa; Lawrence Castillo, USW ( Steelworkers). 

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    Texas troopers ticketing Hispanic drivers aswhite Senator says DPS 'playing games' with racial profiling data 

    By Brian Collister and Joe EllisPublished: November 6, 2015, 2:12 pm  Updated: November 7,

    2015, 9:47 am 

    Story Features

    http: //kxan.com/investigative-story/texas-troopers-ticketing-hispanics-motorists-as-whi te/   

    Senator: DPS 'Playing Games' Senator Rodriguez Demands An Explanation DPS Responds To KXAN'sInvestigation Example Tickets 

     AUSTIN (KXAN) -- DPS troopers are inaccurately recording the race of large numbers ofminority drivers, mostly Hispanic, as white, according to a KXAN investigation. The agency'straffic stop data reveals racial profiling reports are likely flawed, according to experts.  

    Sergio Raul Mejia got a traffic citation for having his license plate on the dash of his truck inGeorgetown last May. The Texas Department of Public Safety trooper who pulled Mejia over puthis race as white on the ticket. 

    "That's bad," said Mejia. "I'm Hispanic. He was not supposed to put white people," Mejiacontinued, speaking in broken English. "You don't think you look white?" asked KXANInvestigator Brian Collister. "No, Hispanic," replied Mejia. 

     A Texas law aimed at preventing racial profiling requires peace officers determine anddocument the race of every driver to whom they issue a written warning, traffic citation or arrestduring a traffic stop. The statute says officers must report: “the person's race or ethnicit y, asstated by the person o r, if the person d oes not state the person's race or ethnic i ty, as

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    determined by the officer to the best of the officer's ability.”  White and Hispanic are justtwo categories listed in the law, which treats race and ethnicity the same for purposes ofgathering the statistics. 

      Read the racial profiling law (CR 2.131) 

    But a KXAN investigation discovered DPS troopers across the state are inaccurately reportingthe race of minority drivers who are African American, Asian, but mostly Hispanic, as white.KXAN uncovered the discrepancies while reviewing more than 16 million DPS traffic citationrecords dating back to 2010. 

    Richard Kai-Tzung Chang got a traffic ticket in Austin from a DPS Trooper last April. Chang isfrom Taiwan and says he believes its obvious he is Asian. But the trooper documented him aswhite on the citation. 

    “I was shocked,” Chang told KXAN. “It's almost incomprehensible that I could be mistaken for awhite male because I don't look anything like a white male,” Chang continued. 

    Dominique Deshaun McGrew was arrested last April during a traffic stop near Victoria. In thedashcam video it’s clear that McGrew is African American.  But instead of recording him asblack, the trooper recorded him as white. 

    Pastor Gonzalez Sosa was pulled over for speeding earlier this year in Caldwell County. In thedashcam video obtained by KXAN through an open records request, Sosa speaks Spanish tothe trooper and tells him he is from Mexico. But the Hispanic trooper, who also speaks Spanish,documented Sosa's race as white on the citation. 

    DPS statistics unreliable 

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    KXAN showed the findingsto Professor Ranjana Natarajan, director of the Civil Rights Clinic at the University of TexasSchool of Law. 

    "I think there could be accidents every now and then, but the sheer number of the reports thatyou found, where it looks like the people who are not white are being classified as white, meansthat there is something else going on here," Natarajan said. 

    The professor also believes what we uncovered reveals DPS racial profiling statistics areunreliable. 

    "It's very disturbing," Natarajan said. "What it shows is that, there either seems to be a completelack of training on the part of DPS officers and other law enforcement officers about how toreport people's race. Or there is deliberate, sort of trying to not follow the policy if they havebeen trained properly on how to report the race of the drivers whom they stop." 

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    But KXAN'sinvestigation suggests the number of Hispanic drivers stopped by DPS may actually be much

    higher than what the agency is reporting. 

     An analysis by KXAN of the DPS traffic stop data shows the five most common last names ofdrivers stopped and recorded as white by troopers are: Smith, followed by Garcia, Martinez,Hernandez, Gonzalez and Rodriguez. 

     Although not everyone with a Hispanic last name is of Hispanic descent, KXAN discovered theDPS data shows more than 1.9 million drivers with traditionally Hispanic names listed as whiteover the past five years. For the same time period, approximately 1.6 million were reported asHispanic. 

    Senator: DPS 'playing games' 

    We showed the list of names to State Senator Jose Rodriguez, D-El Paso. 

    "We've got to stop playing these kinds of games," Senator Rodriguez said, as he looked at thelist. "I mean, people want to know why are Hispanics being singled out? That's a simplequestion, and you can't go around saying, well, they're white." 

    People want to know why are Hispanics being singled out?—  Sen. Rodriguez 

    Lawmakers and media have scrutinized the race of drivers stopped by state troopers since thecontroversial arrest of Sandra Bland. A DPS trooper arrested Bland, who is African American, inWaller County this summer for a minor traffic violation. She later committed suicide in jail,

    according to the county coroner. The increasing number of Hispanic drivers reported in DPSracial profiling data has also been the focus of those legislative hearings and news reports. AKXAN analysis of the DPS traffic stop data confirms the number of drivers stopped by troopersand recorded as Hispanic has gone up annually since 2010, while the number of driversrecorded as white has gone down. 

    But a racial-profiling expert says what we uncovered reveals DPS statistics used to create itsannual reports on traffic stops do not add up. 

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    "The under-representation of Hispanics and over-representation of Caucasians on the contactdata counts has a significant impact on the analysis of racial profiling trends," said Dr. Alex DelCarmen, executive director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and StrategicStudies at Tarleton State University in Fort Worth. "It is imperative that the citation count isaccurately recorded and reported by all police officers that interact with the public. This is theonly manner in which we can ensure an accurate representation of motor vehicle stops and

    trends." 

    Senator Rodriguez demands an explanation 

    Senator Rodriguez asked DPS to explain the reason behind the trends in DPS's racial profiledata. 

    "Over the last number of years we've had a precipitous drop of highway patrol tickets for Anglo- Americans but a dramatic increase for Hispanics and African Americans, and particularlyHispanics," Rodriguez said. "I mean there's got to be some explanation for that."  

    When Rodriguez demanded an explanation, DPS Director Steven McCraw, responded to the

    legislator with a letter claiming the rise in Hispanic traffic stops is partly because his troopers aredoing a better job of documenting race. That coming after a change to the racial profiling law in2009 requiring officers to report if they know the race of the driver prior to a stop. 

    McCraw wrote: "In implementing this new requirement, Troopers received additional training onthe collection of racial profiling data, which emphasized the importance of accurately reportingthe race and ethnicity." 

    KXAN asked DPS for records showing the additional training. The DPS gave us a slide from anagency presentation showing troopers are taught to pick from the categories created in the law,including Hispanic, and told to determine what "most closely represents race."  

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    TX DPS CitationIdentification  

    KXAN requested an interview with McCraw, but DPS declined. So, we caught up with McGrawat a recent Public Safety Commission meeting. 

    “With what we've discovered, with so many minorities being put down as white, how can yousay that the data is still accurate?” asked KXAN Investigator, Brian Collister. 

    "Your point could be valid," McCraw replied. “If we are not putting all the particular individuals,and we are miscalculating who they are based on what the driver’s license is telling them, that isa problem because that is under representation,” McCraw continued, blaming a flaw in the in-car computer system used by troopers. But he acknowledges troopers have been made awareof the computer systems limitations and trained to determine and report the race of each driver.  

    Collister asked McCraw: "With the troopers making the determination, why are there still somany being put down as white?" 

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    "I don't know that it is. We need to look at the data. But if it is, then we will need to makeadjustments," McCraw replied. He went on to say: "I don't doubt that there may be mistakesmade on occasion, but I don't know the details of that until I see the data and I sit down with myexperts. And, I'd like to see how wrong we are." 

    So, why would a state trooper or any police officer record the wrong race of a driver? 

    That question remains unanswered. 

    We have tried getting answers from the Department of Public Safety Officers and Texas StateTroopers Association. But so far, neither has responded to requests to discuss the issue.  

    Dashcam video of trooper issuing citation 

    DPS responds to KXAN's investigation 

     After Brian Collister's initial exchange with the DPS director at a meeting, Tom Vinger, the PressSecretary for the Texas Department of Public Safety, sent us an email stating the following:  

    Let us be unequivocal – if the implication of your story is that Texas Department of PublicSafety (DPS) troopers are engaging in racial profiling – the department categorically rejects thatassertion and takes great exception to any such insinuation. Racial profiling is against the law,against DPS policy, and is not tolerated by the department. Any allegation of racial profiling istaken very seriously by the department and thoroughly investigated. 

    In fact, since 2010, out of a total of approximately 15 million traffic stops, the DPS Office ofInspector General has received only eight citizen complaints of alleged racial profiling againstthe Texas Highway Patrol. And after conducting investigations, including reviewing dash camvideos and other evidence, zero complaints were sustained. 

    “Implying or insinuating racial profiling without concrete evidence is slanderous and unfairlytarnishes the reputation of the commissioned men and women of the Texas Department ofPublic Safety, including approximately 30 percent who are Hispanic, who proudly risk their livesevery day to protect and serve all residents and travelers in Texas,” said Texas Highway PatrolChief Luis Gonzalez. “We are proud of these brave officers, and we thank the many members ofthe public who appreciate the job they do in adverse, dangerous situations – and we thank themfor their continued support.” 

    Fueling unfounded insinuations of racial profiling also has the potential to foster an anti-policeenvironment that not only hinders our ability to protect the communities we serve, but couldeven put officers’ lives at risk. 

    In regard to data collection, we agree that it is important that the information be accurate, as it isincluded in the traffic stop data reports each year, which inform state leaders and the public ofthe racial or ethnic breakdown of drivers involved in DPS traffic stops.  

    To be clear, the department takes its direction from the Texas Legislature and existing statutes – in this case, the Texas Code of Criminal Procedure Articles 2.131 - 2.1385. We will continueto follow their direction on this important issue. 

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    It should also be noted that the concept of race and ethnicity are complicated issues. Manypeople get these two categories confused. For instance white is a category of race, whileHispanic is an ethnicity. Race and ethnicity are defined as:  

      Race: a socially constructed category of identification based on physical characteristics,ancestry, historical affiliation, or shared culture. 

      Ethnicity: identity with or membership in a particular racial, national, or cultural groupand observance of that group's customs, beliefs, and language. 

    With this understanding, someone who identifies as Hispanic can also self-identify as white. Amajor complicating factor as it relates to traffic stop data is that the national and state lawenforcement information systems – that driver license (DL) information interfaces with – do notrecognize the ethnicity category of Hispanic. Consequently, collecting 100 percent accuratedata is a challenge and not unique to DPS. For instance, a Hispanic DPS employee recentlyreceived a traffic ticket from the Austin Police Department. Her last name is a non-Hispanicsurname; however, she self-identifies on her DL application as Hispanic. The Austin officerwrote “white” on the ticket. Conversely, when a white female of non-Hispanic ethnicity gets

    married and takes on her spouse’s Hispanic surname, it does not mean that her race orethnicity changes. 

    Based on conversations with KXAN, the department has identified information interoperabilitylimitations with database systems at the state and national level. Law enforcement informationsystems utilized by every law enforcement agency in the nation have five specific codes forrace. Hispanic is not included in those codes as it is an ethnicity, not a race. In these systems,ethnicity can be included in an individual’s record, but that field is supplemental –  it is notsearchable and will not replace the race identifier. For example, even though someone mayself-identify as Hispanic on their Texas driver license application and are categorized as such inthat system, that Hispanic code is not recognized in the race field of the state and national lawenforcement databases. The systems will convert that Hispanic designation to “unknown” or

    “other” in the race field. The department will explore options to permit DPS traffic stop data toreflect the race or ethnicity designated by the applicant in the Texas DL system. That way, theinformation ultimately reflected in the traffic stop data collected by law enforcement would havebeen selected directly by the driver – which would eliminate the need for troopers and other lawenforcement officers to “guess” a driver’s race or ethnicity. As a result, this process wouldimprove the accuracy of the data. The department will also continue to explore options to furtherrefine the data accuracy and will share those findings with state leaders and other lawenforcement officials. 

    The Hispanic designation on the Texas driver license application (and in the Texas driverlicense system) is relatively new in our state. Beginning in 2010, the DL system was able toprocess the Hispanic ethnicity designation when an applicant chose to write Hispanic on their

    DL application. In 2013, the DL application was changed so that Hispanic could specifically beselected by an applicant as an ethnicity option. A typical Texas driver license is valid for sixyears, so most drivers only visit a DL office once every six years  – and many who renew theirlicense online will only visit a DL office every 12 years. Therefore, it will be quite some timebefore the driver license database will serve as an accurate indicator of drivers self-identifyingas Hispanic. 

    The information guiding troopers on how to select the race or ethnicity of a traffic violator fordata collection purposes is taught during the DPS Training Academy and is part of DPS

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    procedures. That said, in an effort to enhance the precision of this important reportingrequirement, the department will be issuing additional guidance to all members of the TexasHighway Patrol reminding them that they are to select race or ethnicity during a traffic stopbased on the totality of the information they have at their disposal to the best of their ability.Troopers will also be reminded to change the race or ethnicity that auto-populates within thecitation or warning on their in-car computer when appropriate. The department is exploring

    possible IT solutions that may help in this effort. Additionally the department will enhance thissection of the Training Academy curriculum, and will also cover this procedure in the next TexasHighway Patrol in-service training for current troopers. 

    Keep in mind, that since the selection of a traffic violator’s race/ethnicity is based on the officer’sbest judgement, it serves to reason that there will always be some flaws  – just as trying toascertain a person’s ethnicity solely based on a surname is also flawed. That said, thedepartment is committed to taking any steps necessary to increase the accuracy of thisreporting. 

    Questions have also been raised about drivers from Mexico who may have been classified aswhite. Given that there are on average more than 2 million traffic stops per year, these numbers

    would represent less than one percent of the total, and therefore would not be statisticallysignificant. According to DPS statistics for the first nine months of 2015, 96.5 percent of Mexicolicensees were listed as Hispanic. 

    It is important to note that potential errors in the designation of race or ethnicity by an officerdoes not in any way translate to racial profiling – and any attempt to draw a direct correlationbetween potential data errors and conducting racial profiling is simply illogical and reckless. Wewould urge KXAN not to misconstrue this issue as racial profiling for all the reasons outlined inour response. 

    Contributors: Ben Friberg, David Barer, Rachel Garza, Josh Hinkle, Robert Sims, Calily Bien,Patrick Tolbert and Chad Cross 

    Example tickets 

    Jose Ramirez was marked as a white male on his ticket 

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    Jose Palacios was marked as a white male on his ticket 

    David Bautista was marked as a white male on his ticket  

    Antonio Mendez was marked as a white male on his ticket 

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