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ACLU Calls Latest Immigrant Tracking Scheme Discriminatory and Ineffective FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Wednesday, June 5, 2002

"Selective enforcement of any law based on unchangeable characteristics like race, ethnicity or national origin is at its core un-American," he added.

"The fingerprinting and tracking proposal is only the latest Bush Administration action targeted at Muslims and people of Middle Eastern descent since September 11. Other discriminatory measures have included round-ups, dragnet questioning, the detention of more than a thousand young men and the targeting of Middle Eastern communities for heightened enforcement of minor immigration law violations."

17 posted on 06/07/2002 12:31:10 PM PDT by Mom_Grandmother
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“By asking neighborhood groups to report on people who are ‘unfamiliar’ or who act in ways that are ‘suspicious’ or ‘not normal,’ our government is unconstructively fear-mongering, and fueling the already rampant ethnic and religious scapegoating,” said ACLU President Nadine Strossen.

I listened to President George Bush just yesterday ask us as citizens to report anything we thought was "suspicious". I think I'll take his advice and err on the side of it being nothing, that way, I'll not wonder the rest of my life if I saw something that should have been reported.

18 posted on 06/07/2002 12:40:04 PM PDT by Mom_Grandmother
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