Submission to the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (2018)

Numerous international declarations and conventions prohibit discrimination on the basis of race.1 Article 5 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination specifically requires States Parties to prohibit and eliminate racial discrimination in the enjoyment of various civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. Unfortunately, in the past fourteen months, there has been an uptick in anti-immigrant rhetoric and enforcement in the United States, which has had a severe impact on youth of color.