SDN joins other organizations in rebuking the new TSA screening measures
Somali Diaspora Network (SDN)
Saturday, Jan 09, 2010
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Washington, DC - USA: January 9, 2010 – Somali Diaspora Network (SDN) and more than twenty five other organizations wrote a letter to Secretary Janet Napolitano, US Department of Homeland Security to oppose the new Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) enhanced security directive issued on January 3, 2010.SDN and the other organizations object to the directive because the directive mandates enhanced security measures for individuals coming from fourteen countries, those identified as state sponsors of terrorism, and other “countries of interest. The directive targets individuals, including US citizens, traveling from Muslim-majority or Middle Eastern countries with no regard as to whether the passenger poses an individualized threat.
In the letter, the organizations point out that the implementation of the directive will result in racial and ethnic profiling, a practice that the DHS has repeatedly disavowed. Also, profiling on the basis of ethnicity and national origin is an unreliable means of identifying criminal behavior.
Click here to read the letter (control key + click):
http://www.adc.org/PDF/TSA%20Profiling%20Letter%20Final.pdf
http://www.muslimadvocates.org/documents/TSA%20Profiling%20Letter%20Final.pdf
http://saalt.org/attachments/1/TSA%20Profiling%20Letter.pdf