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February 3, 2014 03:00 am PST
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What it's like to come home to America if your name is"Ahmed"
Ahmed Shihab-Eldin is a respected journalist who holds US citizenship. Every time he returns to his home in New York, he is detained for many hours by the DHS, subjected to humiliating questioning and detention without evidence or charge, because he fits a "profile" that seems to consist entirely of "brown dude with Arabic name who visits the middle east." He recently returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos and found himself detained for hours, despite having been assured that his name had been removed from the DHS's watch-list.Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/dWgV02v4kog/story01.htm
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