Posted on 04/27/2016 7:45:39 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
Somali-American community leaders in the Twin Cities voiced dismay Wednesday after a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) manager in Minneapolis alleged in congressional testimony that they were targets of racial profiling by his agency.
Andrew Rhoades, an assistant federal security director for the TSA in Minneapolis, said he was pressured by his supervisor earlier this month to profile Somali imams and community members visiting his Twin Cities office.
The allegation sparked a call by Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., for an investigation by the Department of Homeland Security, of which TSA is a part. In a letter to Jeh Johnson, secretary of the department, Ellison cited a New York Times report Wednesday that the TSA supervisor wanted to screen Somali-Americans through national security databases for terrorist ties — “by the same office designed to address their complaints.”
The department’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is investigating the claims.
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Being as how the Somalis and muslims are profiling you and yours truly for assassination on a daily basis...
Screw 'em!
So he was pressured to actually do his job and protect Americans?
If they are Somali immigrants or refugees they are not Somali-Americans and if they are naturalized then they are just Americans. If they retain loyalty to Somalia or even worse, Islam then they are traitors but in no way are they “Somali-Americans”.
and the problem is ???
I fail to see a problem with that. It makes a lot more sense than the TSA SOP of profiling 90 year old pensioners.
The Somalis are a nasty bunch.
Complain,complain,complain.
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I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if Hillary chooses Ellison or Andre Carson as her VP.
I read that these days there are a lot of ISIS members in Somalia, so the profiling make sense,
Same here ..i’m truly shocked ..whoever ordered this is long gone by now and will hopefully be rehired by President Trump
Figures the TSA is getting in trouble for finally doing something right.
Yeah, basically.
It doesn’t take much to profile a sammie.
I see no problem.
Where I am employed, when the Asians retire, somali temps are hired to replace them.
They actually speak better English than the Vietnamese.
With regards to the Moslem apologist Ellison, where’s a good mugger when you need one? I still relish his confrontation with then Senator Allen West when West tore him a new one.
I’m actually impressed.
Surprised there are still people struggling to do a good job in this swamp of tyrannical political correctness
OK then..?
It’s a set-up for Ellison to come out all outraged.
Happens every two years, like clockwork.
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