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Thu, Aug 02, 2018

CAIR Urges TSA To Drop 'Quiet Skies' Passenger Tracking Program

Cites Concerns About Religious, Racial Profiling

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), is calling on TSA to drop the secret "Quiet Skies" passenger tracking program that the Muslim civil rights organization says may single out law-abiding Muslim travelers for official harassment.

Under that program, which was revealed by the Boston Globe and has been in existence in some form since 2010, teams of federal air marshals track American citizens not suspected of a crime and not under investigation or on a watch list. According to the Globe, the teams "document whether passengers fidget, use a computer, have a 'jump' in their Adam's apple or a 'cold penetrating stare,' among other behaviors."

All American citizens who enter the country are automatically screened for inclusion in the surveillance program. Dozens of air marshals have expressed concerns about the program

"The arbitrary surveillance of innocent people at airports guarantees that Muslim passengers will be disproportionately harassed by federal officials based on racial and religious profiling, with no benefit to the traveling public or to our nation's security," said CAIR Senior Litigation Attorney Gadeir Abbas in a statement. "This is just the latest example of the federal government's counterproductive and misguided approach to aviation security. Congress never authorized any agency to actively surveil innocent travelers.

"This program must be dropped and those responsible for this waste of government resources held accountable."

Abbas noted that CAIR is currently challenging the government's use of watch lists and other modes of racial and religious profiling in federal courts across the country. He said CAIR has repeatedly expressed concern about Islamophobic, white supremacist and racist Trump administration policies and appointments. "Quiet Skies" is reminiscent of a similar TSA program that reportedly became "a magnet for racial profiling, targeting not only Middle Easterners but also blacks, Hispanics and other minorities."

(Source: CAIR news release)

FMI: www.cair.com

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