{"id":1488,"date":"2002-06-07T01:02:23","date_gmt":"2002-06-07T06:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2002-06-07T01:02:23","modified_gmt":"2002-06-07T06:02:23","slug":"new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/","title":{"rendered":": New Surveillance Measures Target Muslim Immigrants"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><table cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\">\n<tr>\n<td><img><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<div class=\"caption\"><\/div>\n<p><\/p><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Invoking an old law that fell into disuse after World War II, the Justice Department announced plans this week to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk%2Fbush%2Fstory%2F0%2C7369%2C728197%2C00.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">begin fingerprinting<\/a> Muslim and Middle Eastern visa holders (approximately 100,000 within the next year). The plan coincides with a new policy that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com%2Fview.cfm%3FStoryID%3D03062002-072011-2741r\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">increases surveillance powers<\/a> at mosques across the United States. The one-two punch took American Muslim and Arab groups by surprise, with both groups calling for immediate meetings with Attorney General John Ashcroft. Reaction from Middle Eastern countries was <a href=\"http:\/\/story.news.yahoo.com%2Fnews%3Ftmpl%3Dstory%26u%3D%2Fap%2F20020605%2Fap_wo_en_po%2Fmideast_registering_aliens_1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">swift<\/a>, with many Arabs saying they will cancel business and travel plans to the US, rather than face the selective treatment. However, Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Jon Kyl (R-AZ) expressed concern about the policies and plan to introduce legislation to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com%2Fview.cfm%3FStoryID%3D06062002-021539-5153r\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">temper<\/a> the actions taken. \u201cRacial profiling of American citizens is abhorrent, whether they be African American, Asian America or Muslim American. I think you can do this much better by country of origin but with the strong caveat of non-citizen only, non-green card (holder) only. That\u2019s a much more comfortable way to be with this,\u201d Schumer said.<\/p>\n<p><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p>Zahed Amanullah is associate editor of altmuslim.com.\u00a0 He is based in London, England.\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New measures in place this week call for the fingerprinting of Muslim immigrants and for extended surveillance powers once they get here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":531,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-briefings"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>: New Surveillance Measures Target Muslim Immigrants<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"New measures in place this week call for the fingerprinting of Muslim immigrants and for extended surveillance powers once they get here.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\": New Surveillance Measures Target Muslim Immigrants\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"New measures in place this week call for the fingerprinting of Muslim immigrants and for extended surveillance powers once they get here.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"altmuslim\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2002-06-07T06:02:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"zahedamanullah\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/\",\"name\":\": New Surveillance Measures Target Muslim Immigrants\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2002-06-07T06:02:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2002-06-07T06:02:23+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#\/schema\/person\/871b6e097b0060bce500f444bd5940ba\"},\"description\":\"New measures in place this week call for the fingerprinting of Muslim immigrants and for extended surveillance powers once they get here.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/2002\/06\/new_surveillance_measures_target_muslim_immigrants\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\": New Surveillance Measures Target Muslim Immigrants\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/altmuslim\/\",\"name\":\"altmuslim\",\"description\":\"Global perspectives on Muslim life, politics &amp; 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