Racial Profiling or Common Sense?

According to “US pushes for visa control on Pakistani Britons” by Alex Spillius and Philip Johnston in The Telegraph (UK) (here), the U.S. government may impose travel restrictions on 800,000 British citizens of Pakistani origin because of concerns about terrorism. The move has been prompted by fears that British Muslim men were behind several major bomb plots. The Americans have been concerned that their principal security risk could actually come from Britain, with whom they operate a visa waiver scheme. Since 2004, Brits travelling to the US do not need a visa if they have a machine-readable passport issued since 1991. Michael Chertoff, the US homeland security secretary, has reportedly told the British Government that British Pakistanis should apply for a visa before travelling to America.

KJ