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Racial profiling

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The Fourth Amendment requires individualized suspicion for search, seizure, and arrest. However, law enforcement agencies throughout the US routinely stop, search, and harass people for their race or religion. Stop-and-frisks and "driving while black" are infamous for unjustly targeting African Americans; "show me your papers" immigration enforcement laws overtly target Latinos; and airport security and counterterrorism officers routinely single out Muslims and people of Arab and South Asian descent.

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