We are distracting focus and attention from the guilty to the innocent. and we are diverting scarce Federal law enforcement resources by utilizing them in a targeting fashion. I hope that we will have an opportunity in this Congress to focus on the issues of intelligence so that we can target individuals who are truly here to harm us. But I also hope that we can establish the fact that racial profiling for your last name. for your religious faith. is clearly unAmerican and that what we should be doing is encouraging travel from the Mideast of those who are here for cultural reasons. those who come for business and. yes. the many. many students who have been discouraged from coming to the United States because of the tough requirements on visas directing and their family sending them to European countries. as much for not being able to get visas as being fearful for their young people to be here. that they might be racially profiled. This is a concern that I believe is necessary to express to this body. and I hope as the various initiatives of this particular appropriations through Justice. through the State Department. really become concerned with the unfair targeting of the Muslim American and Arab American community. Mr.
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Racial profiling based on last name and religious faith