Glenn Hutchinson, Imagine 2050. November 30, 2011.
The students were going to a Conference called “Today’s Students, Tomorrow’s Leaders,” but one passenger worried that they could be terrorists and alerted the flight crew.
Valeria Fernandez, New America Media. April 26, 2010.
“Congress has reserved enforcement of immigration law for federal government, with very few explicit areas for a role for states or localities. This is not one of them.”
There is no evidence that racial or ethnic profiling decreases terrorism. Instead, it alienates the very constituencies that are needed to prevail against terrorist plots.
Instead of succumbing to the right-wing drum beat of calls for profiling Muslims, we should adopt a more rational approach to profiling for terrorism based on behavior.
Matt Corley, ThinkProgress AlterNet: World. January 4, 2010.
On Fox News, retired Lt. General Tom McInerney said the U.S. needs to "be very serious and harsh about the profiling" but denied he supports racial profiling.
Faiz Shakir, ThinkProgress AlterNet: PEEK. December 28, 2009.
In the wake of the failed terrorist attempt aboard a Northwest airlines flight on Christmas Day, the right wing is renewing its pleas for more profiling of Muslims.
