Islamic Immigration Pros And Cons

Since 9/11, Arab immigrants, Muslim and non-Muslim, and other Muslim immigrants have faced much racial profiling by U.S. government officials. The latter have rejected more Arab visa applications, such as from tourists and business people. Immigration regulations have been violated, or restrictions have been applied disproportionately to Arab and other Muslim immigrants. A year after the creation of the Department of Homeland Security in 2002, the new agency gained control of immigrants and conducted a special registration program for men who had entered legally from twenty-five countries, all but one predominantly Arab or Muslim. These men were required to be photographed and fingerprinted. Although much of this profiling program was soon