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Report: Newark airport screeners targeted Mexicans
NEWARK — A special unit of airport screeners, charged with detecting suspicious behavior, engaged in racial profiling so frequently at Newark Liberty International Airport that their resentful colleagues called them "Mexican hunters," according to an internal federal report. Officially known as behavior detection officers, or BDOs, the screeners were supposed to focus on nervous, erratic or evasive gestures or speech and other indicators to single out passengers for extra scrutiny, but… (www.nj.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
y not do the african americand the japanese the vietnamize and us americans and then see what happens
I thought they already do that....
@ mark tufts
Huh?
Huh?
99ny rhe article was talking about racial profiling the mexicans and i said y not do it to all of us
While I don't agree with the practices, it seems that every time one of these articles surfaces, it is blown out of proportion. Quite frankly, it seems like they were doing little more than selecting people they felt did not have adequate travel documents, which could be a "threat to national security". There are much better ways for them to have approached this but a lot has changed in Newark since this report and security seems to go much smoother there now.
And why not they are most likely in this country illegally so they are breaking the law, when are we going to wake up and do this at all airports. I believe its another case of playing the race card to get the heat taken off of them.