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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]
Amen Brother!
LOOKS LIKE ALL OF YOU HAVE A GOOD POINT EXCEPT Michael. AS AN EX-LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER I CAN TELL YOU THAT PROFILING DOES HAPPEN AND IS SIMPLY A PART OF GETTING THE JOB DONE. I'M NOT SAYING IT'S RIGHT OR WRONG, HOWEVER, IF THE MAJORITY OF RACE SAY (MEXICANS) ARE ENTERING THE UNITED STATES ILLEGALLY, THEN THEY ARE GOING TO BE LOOKED AT DIFFERENTLY THAN SAY OTHERS. MEXICO DOES LITTLE OR NOTHING TO SECURE THEIR BORDERS AND AS SUCH, IT IS LEFT UP TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES TO DEAL WITH THE PROBLEM. LET'S GET REAL, WE ALL PROFILE BUT WHEN THE MEDIA WANTS TO MAKE A STORY OUT OF IT OMG, HOW SHAMEFUL. I SAY IF THE LEGAL MEXICAN POPULATION IS UPSET ABOUT BEING PROFILED, MAYBE THEY SHOULD TAKE A STAND TO CLEAN UP THE PROBLEM. I LIVE IN ARIZONA AND IT'S SAD TO SEE THIS STATE BEING TURNED INTO MEXICO. THE WHITES ARE NOW THE MINORITY. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DO NOT HAVE THIS PROBLEM AND SUPPORT OPEN BOARDER JUST WAIT. IT'S YOUR TURN NEXT TO SEE YOU NEIBORHOODS TRASHED.
You know how many terrorist TSA has caught? Zip Zero ...
Political correctness run amok....I am sick and tired of the perpetually and eternally offended.
So we should harrass all white males? That makes sense. Did he have pass port issues and get stopped by the TSA and noticed it?
And did he get sent on his merry way?
If so that would be the result of not stopping some one from proceding with out scrutiny AFTER noticing that his passport was out of order.
Almost never are criminals caught during their first offense.
They usually get away with a lot of crimes before they slip up and get caught
If they have an explainable problem with their passport and it can be resolved and sent on their way, fine.
But the discrepancy needs to be investigated rather than ignored, by people that are in the line of work of keeping ne'er do wells off our commercial aircraft.
And did he get sent on his merry way?
If so that would be the result of not stopping some one from proceding with out scrutiny AFTER noticing that his passport was out of order.
Almost never are criminals caught during their first offense.
They usually get away with a lot of crimes before they slip up and get caught
If they have an explainable problem with their passport and it can be resolved and sent on their way, fine.
But the discrepancy needs to be investigated rather than ignored, by people that are in the line of work of keeping ne'er do wells off our commercial aircraft.
The last act of terrorism perpetrated in the USA using an airplane was done so by a white male.