'bout time.
BUFFALO, N.Y. - Five Muslim-Americans who were fingerprinted, searched and held up to 6 1/2 hours by U.S. border agents upon their return from a religious conference in Canada are suing the Department of Homeland Security.
The suit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Brooklyn charges the government violated their constitutional rights to practice religion and against unlawful searches.
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The plaintiffs said they had to surrender credit cards, cell phones and other belongings and were searched, questioned, fingerprinted and photographed without explanation. No one in the group was charged.
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