CAIR-MI Joines Advocates, Congressmen Voicing Concerns Over Profiling

posted on: Jul 11, 2011

CAIR-MI last week joined civil rights advocates and religious leaders in calling for a meeting with the national director of U.S. Border Patrol regarding complaints of racial profiling of citizens re-entering the country and traveling in Southwest Detroit.

In June, six individuals, five being American citizens, reported being detained and questioned about their citizenship status by U.S. Border Patrol.

At last week’s rally, CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid received a verbal commitment from Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, that he would arrange a meeting with the national director of U.S. Border Patrol.

CAIR-MI is also in contact with the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security regarding a series of federal complaints filed against agents for asking invasive questions of American Muslims re-entering the country via automobiles from Canada.

“We stand in solidarity with other civil libertarians of various ethnic and religious persuasions to curb the practice of racial and religious profiling by federal law enforcement,” said CAIR-MI Executive Director Dawud Walid. “Not only does racial and religious profiling fail to keep our nation safer, it also humiliates those who are subjected to it.”

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