In reality, many immigrants are victims of crime, survivors of domestic violence, community members targeted by racial profiling or criminalized based on the color of their skin, kids getting into mischief, and people genuinely making mistakes but ultimately not deserving of family separation.
The Constitution does not permit the government to criminalize speech based on the identity of the speaker.
The National People's Congress, China's Parliament, has scrapped a proposal that would criminalize abortions based on the sex of the fetus, the state media reported, despite a growing population imbalance between males and females.
The order effectively criminalized people based on their ethnicity and national origin.
In particular, he takes issue with Bill C-16, the parliamentary bill meant to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to criminalize harassment based on gender identity.
In a letter from the editors, Daily Resistance explains it's a publication that's "fighting against a system of politicians, media, and capitalists that is based on dehumanizing laws that criminalize and instrumentalize people".
In the 1992 case R.A.V. v. City of St . Paul for example, the Court held that a St. Paul, Minnesota, ordinance criminalizing "fighting words" based on race, religion, or gender was unconstitutional because it penalized only certain messages.
Because S.B. 1070 criminalizes people based on their appearance, it strikes a deep chord within the struggle for LGBT inclusion.
Thirty-two states have criminal statutes based on perceived exposure to HIV -- regardless of the actual risk of transmission -- and 13 states have laws that criminalize certain acts, like spitting, by people with HIV/AIDS.
Based on recent reports, 76 (41%) of 184 countries criminalize homosexuality.
