The Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties is investigating U.S. Customs and Border Protection's referrals of migrants from Muslim countries for prosecution.

The Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into the federal government’s use of a little-known law to disproportionately prosecute and imprison migrants from Muslim-majority countries.

A Times investigation published late last month revealed the disproportionate nature of the prosecutions in Del Rio, Texas. The Department of Justice’s manual for U.S. attorneys says that a “person’s race, religion, sex, national origin or political association, activities or beliefs” should not affect a prosecutor’s decision “to commence or recommend prosecution or take other action against a person.”

Originals at https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2023-09-13/la-times-investigation-dhs-muslim-countries-migrants

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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-31/texas-prosecutions-muslim-asylum-seekers-1459