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Monday, 20 June 2016

Trump immigration ban could include Egypt, says law enforcement step-up racial profiling

Trump travel ban could include Egypt: In comments about Donald Trump’s controversial immigration ban, Alabama Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions told CNN‘s Dana Bash on Sunday that Egypt may be one of the countries slapped with a ban. “The public data that we have indicate there are quite a number of countries in that region that have sent a large number of people that have become terrorists … Pakistan has a number, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen,” he said.

In somewhat related news, on Sunday, Trump said the US needs to consider more racial profiling in law enforcement, especially of Muslims, as his controversial immigration ban continued to gain traction in the media. “You look at Israel and you look at others, and they do it and they do it successfully. And you know, I hate the concept of profiling, but we have to start using common sense,” he added.

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