NYT: U.S. to Continue Racial, Ethnic Profiling in Border Policy

The New York Times writes: “The Obama administration will soon issue new rules curtailing the use of profiling, but federal agents will still be allowed to consider race and ethnicity when stopping people at airports, border crossings and immigration checkpoints, according to several government officials.”

Apparently “immigration investigators” feel that “We can’t do our job without taking ethnicity into account. We are very dependent on that.”

As Ruthie Epstein, immigration and criminal justice lobbyist at the ACLU, tweeted: “great news on revised federal racial profiling guidance, except for MASSIVE BORDER SECURITY LOOPHOLE.” Indeed.

-KitJ