Anti-Muslim incidents at borders rise by 1,000%

London, April 26: Islamophobic incidents at the US borders have risen by over 1,000 per cent since President Donald Trump took office in January, according to a Muslim activist group.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in its preliminary data collected from its branches across the country said the instances in which US Customs and Borders Protection officials were accused of profiling Muslims accounted for 23 per cent of its caseload in the first three months of 2017.

Of the 193 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) cases recorded from January to March 2017, 181 were reported after the January 27 signing of the Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States Executive Order, also known as the Trump administration’s Muslim travel ban.

In the first three months of 2016, the group reported 17 cases, it said. “CAIR reports 1,035 per cent spike in Islamophobic border incidents during #Trump’s first 100 days,” CAIR said.

“These are incidents which are reported to us and which we examine. We look at these very carefully. Around 50 per cent, we reject,” Corey Saylor, director of CAIR’s group that monitors alleged Islamophobia, told The Independent. Mr Trump and the signing of two executive orders designed to crackdown on undocumented migrants.