The U.S. department of immigration essentially consists of relatively unintelligent humans enforcing their misinterpretations of already unjust laws. The vast majority of the educated public does not support these policies, and we are trying to have them retracted (actually first we're concentrating on things not getting worse).

I've had to travel by air a lot in the past year, and I haven't personally seen anything that appeared to be racial profiling. In fact, what I have observed is that the people the airport security personnel seem most likely to target are white females aged 16-24 (that is, besides, of course, me). However, I do not doubt that there are many gross injustices taking place, and I am deeply disturbed by them.

Regards,

Arbiter

I guess they'll say that it's better to be safe than sorry, but still, it seems a little ott, I guess though they have to be seen to be doing something even if its not fair

I agree ... this incident is reminiscent of the Japanese detention camps of WW2. Shame on us for reliving the past and giivng justification for it. It wasn't right then, not now, and not in the future.

It's not justifiable on any level. I'm disgusted at my country, and feel for your sister. I too have been in a similar situation, in which I was singled out for being born an Israeli, I know it was officially a random check, but I overheard one official tell another something about me being israeli, I thought it was esspecially odd considering I'd lived in the U.s for 13 of the 16 years I've been alive, and wasnt even carrying a cary on.

home of the brave , land of the free , that's what a country says knowing the fact that they built it on the indian genocide and the black racial segregation , and many horrible things outside the american continent , shame shame shame ...

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Originally posted by fastmp3 home of the brave , land of the free , that's what a country says knowing the fact that they built it on the indian genocide and the black racial segregation , and many horrible things outside the american continent , shame shame shame ...

Well its certantly brave of us to do such things, and flaunt our power does that count towards home of the brave?

lol home of the tyrant you mean

anyway i have a couple of friends (lots of TAs) in the US i wished to visit but now i won't bother putting my feet in there ...

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The strange thing is that with those kind of measures accomplish what terrorist are trying to do: create panic, paranoia, in short, to disrupt normal life in America.

I don't understand how they don't realise this.

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Originally posted by Stunt The strange thing is that with those kind of measures accomplish what terrorist are trying to do: create panic, paranoia, in short, to disrupt normal life in America. I don't understand how they don't realise this.

They do, and they don't care. They also know theyre racially profiling people, but they dont care about that either, national security is a good excuse for *everything*

im for racial profiling but im also for common sense. i mean come on some of the cases i hear coming out of airport security (like Cyprus King's) are absolutely absurd and plain dumb.

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