Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Report: Newark airport screeners targeted Mexicans and Dominicans

By the CNN Wire Staff
June 15, 2011

(CNN) -- Security screeners at Newark Liberty International Airport singled out Mexican and Dominican passengers for nearly two years, according to a federal report obtained by The Star-Ledger newspaper.

The racial profiling was so prevalent in 2008 and 2009 that some TSA employees at the airport referred to their colleagues as "Mexican hunters," a Star-Ledger story based on the 2010 internal report said. [...]

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http://www.cnn.com/2011/TRAVEL/06/14/new.jersey.airport.profiling/index.html?eref=rss_topstories

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