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Old 01-18-2010, 06:05 AM
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In my youth in the 1960s I worked at JFK Airport for the #1 carrier to Havana: Eastern Airlines. Yup - our flights to FL and San Juan were highjacked on a regular basis. The Feds implemented a profiling policy where we reported to a US Marshall any male hispanic, especially those with a one-way cash ticket. The traveller was then interrogated, frisked (no TSA then), etc., before being permitted on a flight.

It made sense, and the hijackings were reduced and finally ended when Fidel started extraditing hijackers back to the US for prosecution.

What has happened to our country since then?
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