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Pretextual Airport Stops

Posted onMay 31, 2015May 31, 2015Leave a comment

  Recently, while traveling from Washington D.C. to sunny Florida, Transportation and Security Administration (TSA) sent me to secondary inspection at the airport. Apparently, my bag had an object that they could not identify. They asked me to identify the Read More …

CategoriesDesi, RacismTagsairline checkpoint, Bananagrams, Bath salts, Bath salts (drug), racial profiling, Racism, Recreational drug use, TSA

Are Credit Card Companies Racial Profiling?

Posted onJune 10, 2010Leave a comment

Welcome the era of credit card profiling. Credit card companies once used data mining techniques to monitor credit transactions for theft. Now, though, they’re turning to such tactics to identify “risky” consumers and slap them with high interest rates and credit reductions. Read More …

CategoriesRacismTagscredit card companies, income inequality, racial profiling, segregation

My Name is Khan And Hence I was Detained

Posted onAugust 15, 2009Leave a comment

Imagine detaining Tom Cruise in Mumbai because his common name is on a list of common names allegedly associated with ‘terrorism.’ Shahrukh Khan is living a Kafkaesque nightmare — detained in New Jersey for his last name while he is Read More …

CategoriesDesi, Immigration, RacismTagsBollywood, KANK, muslim, racial profiling, Shahrukh Khan, SRK

U.S. Government Wrongfully Detaining Citizens and Tourists

Posted onAugust 23, 2008Leave a comment

I came across an outrageous article today that reminded me of a caller I spoke to when I staffed the National Lawyers’ Guild 9-11 Hotline. He was a dual-citizen of Bulgaria and the United States who was apprehended by Homeland Read More …

CategoriesGender, Human Rights, Immigration, RacismTags9-11, DHS, Immigration, racial profiling, terrorism

race is a proxy for 'illegal' presence

Posted onMarch 14, 2008Leave a comment

How ridiculous is it that the ICE is deporting US citizens in error?! How do you possibly goof-up like that? Read the article here I m just going to be blunt. I don’t see any white people mistakenly identified as Read More …

CategoriesImmigration, RacismTagsracial profiling, Racism

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