Appeals Court Rules in Case Challenging Racial Profiling of Muslim, Arab, South Asian Men in Post-9/11 Sweeps

On the 18th of December the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in Turkmen vs Ashcroft  challenging the racial profiling, arbitrary detention and abuse of Muslim, Arab, and South Asian men swept up after 9/11. The appeals court affirmed the 2006 district court ruling that it is lawful to use the pretext of immigration detention as an excuse to hold non-citizens for the purpose of criminal investigation or other purposes unrelated to immigration as long as their deportation remains “reasonably foreseeable.”