U.S. Citizens Question Terror Watch Lists (CAIR & ACLU Battles Border Security)

CAIR and the ACLU announced today the establishment of a telephone hotline and Internet address for quick reporting of any incidents of suspected profiling at the U.S.-Canadian border. WE better profile these people who travel to and from the Middle East via open border Canada.

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Typically wearing jeans and a T-shirt, Reed, who stands six-foot three with light brown hair and blue eyes, was born Edward Eugene Reed, the son of a U.S. Navy veteran, and raised a Lutheran. When he converted to Islam ten years ago, he changed his name to Zakariya Muhammad Reed. His religion, Reeds believes, could be at the root of the problem.

And crossing the border 9 times a year might add to the "problem" of Muhammad Reed.

“And crossing the border 9 times a year might add to the “problem” of Muhammad Reed.”

He just wants to get a “dynamite” pair of shoes like his uncle Richard. His uncle spells his name a little differently, though.

"I don't feel very welcome in my home at all," Reed tells CBS News. "In fact, I feel like I am not wanted in my country any more."

Cry me a river, Zak. I've lived my entire adult life without leaving the United States. Know why? 'Cause I love it! If you love going to Canada so damn much, you ought to just stay there, "eh?"

Jerk.

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Owl_Eagle

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And crossing the border 9 times a year

That's hardly a lot when you live so close to the border. My mother crosses a minimum of four times a week.

That's hardly a lot when you live so close to the border. My mother crosses a minimum of four times a week.

I think it's quite apparent the aclu has picked and chosen their lawsuits carefully.....white guy with a muslim name that crosses the border a lot, for whatever reason.

I doubt the aclu will come to your mothers defense if she happens to display a manger scene in her home town square.

Held in a small building to the side of the bridge's toll booths, Reed is fingerprinted, photographed, and interrogated.

The story is not clear; all of this has happened to him each time he crossed the border, or he's crossed the border more times, but was stopped only nine times?

I doubt the aclu will come to your mothers defense if she happens to display a manger scene in her home town square.

LOL! An ACLU lawyer would die of culture shock if he could even find the town! They would have to airlift the comatose victim to a place with more than two kinds of cheese for sale at the grocery store.

But, yes, I do see your point.

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Hotline set up for reporting suspected profiling at the border
Gregg Krupa / The Detroit News
DETROIT — A coalition of community and civil right groups announced today the establishment of a telephone hotline and Internet address for quick reporting of any incidents of suspected profiling at the U.S.-Canadian border.

The groups, led by the American Civil Liberties Union-Michigan, citied the continual difficulty some Muslims and people of Arab and South Asian descent encounter at border crossings. They also said they would call upon elected officials soon to:

• End the seizure of laptops and cell phones at the border without probable cause.

• End the repeated detentions of U.S. citizens re-entering the United States from countries in the Middle East.

• Hold hearings on the various issues at the border.

• Exercise oversight of the FBI, which has been operating under new guidelines in national security cases since Dec. 1.

Beyond the concerns that Muslims, Arabs and South Asians have expressed about what they contend is profiling at the Ambassador and Blue Water bridges and the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel, the FBI on Dec. 1 established new guidelines authorizing a wide range of new investigative techniques, which it intends to initiate without evidence of wrongdoing.

Federal officials say the new tactics are required for national security and are well within the parameters of the Constitution. But a raft of community organizations and civil rights groups say the techniques are unconstitutional, absent a “reasonable cause” to believe a crime has occurred.

“For the last eight years, our civil liberties have been under attack,” said Noel Saleh, a member of the board of directors of the Arab Community Center for Economic and Social Services. “We’re afraid implementation of these FBI guidelines will only make the situation worse. That is why it’s imperative that we come together and collectively work to ensure that we uphold our core American values of civil liberties and human rights for all.”

ACCESS is one of several organizations participating in the initiative announced today. Others are the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, the Council of American-Islamic Relations, the Detroit branch of the NAACP, the Metropolitan Organizing Strategy Enabling Strength and the Arab American Institute.

“The racial and religious profiling that is allowed by the FBI and Boarder Patrol is only one example of how we have let our own protection of basic human rights and dignities degrade,” said Kary Moss, executive director of the ACLU-Michigan.

FBI and border enforcement officials consistently maintain that their techniques are well within constitutional protections. Leaders of the FBI office in Detroit also meet monthly with community organizations to discuss the issues.

Canada has a huge population of Muslims due to there open immigration policies. We live near the Peace bridge in Niagara Falls and you can’t believe the amount of middle eastern travelers using the border. Many homeowners on Lake Ontario have reported witnessing small boats crossing the lake from Canada filled with Muslims entering rural tributaries into the U.S. It is alarming to many of us, and it’s about time our government takes action.