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Advocacy Group Sues DHS for Profiling

Via UPI.

An advocacy group is suing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, alleging that they engaged in pre-election profiling of Arab-Americans and Muslims.

The American-Arab Anti Discrimination Committee has brought a Freedom of Information Act case against the department to force disclosure of the nationalities of more than 230 people detained by federal immigration authorities in the days leading up to the 2004 presidential election.

The detentions were part of a pre-election counter-terror push launched in October 2004, dubbed by the media the "October Plan," and called by officials the "Interagency Security Plan."

posted by Fergie @ 10/26/2006 12:46:00 PM