ACLU sues DHS, says Muslim Americans questioned about faith at border

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: The Hill

Three U.S. citizens filed a federal lawsuit on Thursday in the United States District Court for the Central District of California alleging they have been subjected to "unconstitutional questioning" from border officials about their religion.

The American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Minnesota and the ACLU Foundation of Southern California filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of three Muslim Americans who say they have been asked "inappropriate religious questions," including "whether they are Muslim, whether they attend a mosque, which mosque they attend, whether they are Sunni or Shi'a, and how often they pray."

They say the questions have been asked on multiple occasions when the plaintiffs came home from traveling abroad.

"By targeting plaintiffs for religious questioning merely because they are Muslim...border officers stigmatize them for adhering to a particular faith and condemn their religion as subject to suspicion and distrust," the lawsuit said.

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/aclu-sues-dhs-says-muslim-americans-questioned-about-faith-at-border/ar-AAVsj1B

[justhanginon]

1. Who,(the DHS), do they think they are? Republican Senators at a Supreme Court hearing for a

potential Supreme Court justice.

[IronLionZion]

2. None of those profiling questions would catch Nazis, white supremacists,

mass shooters, or RW insurrectionists.

[intheflow]

3. Which I'm sure was the point.

These particular DHS employees are likely all Nazis, white supremacists, mass shooters*, and RW insurrectionists.


*Maybe not literally mass shooters but I'm sure they have massive wet dreams about taking out scores of Muslims and other non-white/non-Chrisitans.

[IronLionZion]

4. And they don't understand that there are white Muslims and non-white Christians

Most of them have no idea what Muslims/Arabs/Middle Eastern people look like so they screen for brown and catch mostly Indians, Ethiopians, etc..

A lot of them look white. I had an Iraqi woman argue with me that she's white and use the US Census designation as proof. Sure enough, the US Census classifies everyone from Morocco to Afghanistan as white.

[intheflow]

5. Yeah, I'm Lebanese.

Also considered white. My grandfather and father majored in race-passing.

[ck4829]

6. Chilling.

[AZLD4Candidate]

7. I've been pulled into secondary repeatedly at the Nogales checkpoint for refusing to answer

their invasive questions as an American citizen.

"Where do you live?" - the passport says I'm an American citizens
"How long were you in Mexico?" - none of your business
"What were you doing in Mexico?" - none of your business
"Where are you going?" - Home
"Where is home?" - (points north) That way

I answer two questions at the border. "Are you an American citizen?" - My passport says I am. "Are you bringing anything back from Mexico?" - (holds up my bag) Yes.

Other than that, the CBP can go pound sand. I actually asked one "If I tell you where I live, will you come for Sunday dinner and bring beer? If not, you have no reason to know where I live."

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Thanks for the chuckle

Your post made my morning.

[AZLD4Candidate]

9. I don't get asked all these idiotic questions at any other POE

And since they cannot legally deny an American citizen re-entry into their own country, pulling me into secondary is a power play.

I never bite. But I did get yelled at once by a female CBP officer that I was "racist" for asking her if she was American having a hispanic last name and was then told "why is it Americans cause all the problems here?" I responded "Because we're American and our rights don't disappear at a border nazi checkpoint even though you would like that to happen."

I got a very angry glare.

[Demsrule86]

10. That is a great comeback...CBP and DHS can go pound sound.

[Mysterian]

11. The Department of Homeland Security should be eliminated

It has proved itself a danger to democracy.