Top Senate Dem calls for probe into Muslims prosecuted by DOJ for illegal border crossings
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Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., urged the Department of Justice to investigate high numbers of individuals from majority-Muslim countries being prosecuted upon illegally crossing the southern border.
The Senate Judiciary chairman noted that in a Los Angeles Times investigation of prosecutions during an 18-month period beginning in October 2021, over 60% of individuals charged under a section of the U.S. code that criminalizes failure to report oneself at a designated U.S. border crossing point were from Muslim-majority countries. The Los Angeles Times gave examples of Afghanistan, Syria, Iran and Mali as some of the countries that the prosecuted individuals hailed from. Julia Johnson is a politics writer for Fox News Digital and Fox Business, leading coverage of the U.S. Senate. She was previously a politics reporter at the Washington Examiner.
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"These trends are extremely troubling," Durbin claimed. "Prosecutions targeting individuals based on their religion, national origin, or other protected characteristics are anathema to the rule of law."
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