Terrorism | Racial Profiling Will Make America Less Safe

The U.S. Department of Justice’s announcement that it intends to interview 3,000 more young Middle Easterners who are not suspected of criminal activity demonstrates a stubborn reliance on a crime-fighting tool that has consistently proven counterproductive: racial profiling. Indeed, despite Attorney General [ John] Ashcroft’s claims that the earlier effort to interview 5,000 non-immigrant men yielded “a significant number of leads,” officials could point to only 20 arrests for visa violations; none with any relation to [the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks]. Furthermore,...

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