Racial Profiling In The United States

Have you ever racially profiled someone or been racially profiled? Racial profiling happens around us every day, yet we are unaware that it is not created solely by individuals or circumstance. All too often people misunderstand what true racial profiling is. It is not the act of disliking someone based on their race or ethnicity, it is much more than that. It is created by far greater powers but can also be demolished by them. Racial profiling happens to American citizens not just immigrants, is promoted by bad policies; however, these policies can be changed by the iron triangle. Shoshana Hebshi is an American citizen from Ohio who is a journalist, a mother, and of Jewish-Arab descent. Hebshi needed to travel by plane and the flight she
There are bad policies in place that not only allow racial profiling, but also promote it. INS workers do not stop white people to see if they are citizens of the U.S. It is their policy to stop people who are of darker skin, wear a different style of clothing, and speak in a foreign language or with an accent. White people are not as plagued with accusations of suspicious behavior for every move they make on a plane. Flight attendants are more likely to report suspicious behavior like going to the bathroom on people of Arab or Indian descent. This process of seeking out undocumented workers or possible terrorists was formed by iron triangles. Iron triangles help to create the policies that the various agencies
The iron triangle consists of interest groups, congress, and the Bureaucracy. All three sides work together to increase their power and expand political influence. Interest groups provide congress electoral support, congress provides the Bureaucracy with funding and political support, the Bureaucracy provides special favors for interest groups. Interest groups provide the Bureaucracy with congressional support through lobbying, the Bureaucracy provides congress with policy choices and execution, and congress provides interest groups with friendly legislation and oversight. Interest groups that see there is a problem with a policy and begin to collect evidence on how and why it needs to be changed. They then begin to lobby the government. Some of the more organized and better funded interest groups will hire representatives to advocate on their behalf. Seats in congress are elected positions; therefore, congressmen are going to pay close attention to what the people who elect them want so they are not voted out of office. Interest groups not only provide campaign funds and influence; they also provide information and expertise that the other sides of the triangle may not have otherwise. Congress and the Bureaucracy need this information to make policy changes and they do not have