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Campbell wants turban profiling
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 15, 2001 Does Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.) support racial profiling? Having prided himself of supporting minority and human rights (he sits on an international human rights commission), the only American Indian in the Senate appears to have wavered in these troubling times. Campbell tells The Denver Post's political column that he believes about 40 percent of screeners at airports are not American citizens. Therefore, they might not be letting terrorist pass through, he seems to suggest. Of a recent trip to an airport, Campbell said: "I was going through one (checkpoint), and there were two of them wearing turbans, speaking a language I didn't understand, and they were looking at me like I was a security threat." Maybe, according to an Indian Country Today opinion by Suzan Shown Harjo, they were Native. Maybe? Get the Story:
Beltway Notebook: Campbell takes on security security alert at plant (The Denver Post 10/14)
Harjo: Enemies within Indian country (Indian Country Today 10/12)
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