Juliette Kayyem, who officially becomes undersecretary of homeland security on Monday.
says, “I hope I would have been chosen whether I was Arab-American or not. Arab-Americans are reaching the highest levels of their professions, and that is great,” Kayyem said. “And I think it says something that in national security, that hasn’t been true. I think the national security community has not been that receptive to people of a variety of descents.”
On racial profiling she says, “You have to weigh it (profiling) against the impact you’re going to have against a community you’re going to need cooperation from...The terrorists will alter their profile if we say we’re profiling,”
She was hired fresh out of Law School by newly appointed Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick back in 1995 when he ran the U.S. Justice Department’s civil rights division.
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