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Borderline insanity

The same people who cry ‘racial profiling’ over checks on Muslims are happy to see Israelis and Jews barred from many countries

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

23 January 2016

9:00 AM

Feeling disappointed

That – and I quote – is how the NSW Greens are feeling, according to their Facebook page. Their attention-seeking upper house MP Dr Mehreen Faruqi was apparently traveling to America – on a ‘self-funded’ trip, Fairfax and the ABC hasten to add – when she was – shock, horror – fingerprinted, asked for secondary identification, and questioned before being allowed past the barriers at Los Angeles.

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