1. Racial Profiling and the Search for Terrorists
Immediately after the bombing of the Murrah Building, police assumed the perpetrator was Middle Eastern. ... Another Middle-Eastern man was kicked off his flight because he used his cell phone before take-off ("Airlines..."" 2). ... Nearly all of the passengers were of Middle-Eastern or South Asian descent. ... The government has also used racial profiling to discriminate against Middle Eastern people. ... The Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered the FBI and other law enforcement officials to conduct interviews with over 5,000 men, aged 18 to 33, who had entered the U.S. from a Middle...
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