Target visitors from select Arab and Muslim countries – Worth Noting – article raises questions about terrorist profiling – Brief Article
Karen Ann Gajewski
* New security measures at U.S. airports–like photographing and fingerprinting people–target visitors from select Arab and Muslim countries, including Malaysia, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Sudan. About one in five visitors to the United States currently undergo extra questioning and, in the past year, immigration agents pulled 7.3 million people out of passport lines for further scrutiny. In fact, a former newspaper editor recently underwent a three-hour interrogation at the airport in Des Moines, Iowa. And U.S. officials had to apologize to the Malaysian government for an incident in September at Los Angeles International Airport when Deputy Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, enroute to New York City to address the UN General Assembly, was forced to remove his shoes and belt.
Karen Ann Gajewski is a consulting editor at the Humanist.
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