Muslim Advocates featured in the Washington Post

Muslim Advocates was recently featured in the Washington Post blog The Faith Divide and in a Washington Post article describing its new report on travelers' harassment by federal border agents, Unreasonable Intrusions.

An excerpt from the blog:

Checking your faith and politics at the border

"Imagine for a moment that you are "Munir," a well-respected Arab-American community leader from the Detroit area driving home from Connecticut with your wife and two young daughters. When you pass through Canada and re-enter the U.S. at the Port Huron land crossing 40 miles north of Detroit, you and your wife are forcefully dragged from and thrown against your car, handcuffed, and separated from each other and your children and detained for over four hours while being aggressively interrogated..."

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Click here to read Spencer Hsu's Washington Post article, "U.S. Border Screening Under Fire."