From 2008-2009 TSA officials unfairly targeted Mexicans and Dominicans at Newark’s Liberty Airport. It was done solely to make the airport’s Behavior Detection Officers statistics look better. The BDOs have since been retrained or let go.

According to the Star-Ledger, the report said TSA agents stationed at the Newark airport would stop Mexicans and Dominicans, asking them additional questions, reviewing their passports and visas and searching their luggage. The report did not specify how many agents were involved, but “leaves no doubt that the process was widespread,” the newspaper said.

The racial profiling was so prevalent in 2008 and 2009 that some TSA employees at the airport referred to their colleagues as “Mexican hunters,” a Star-Ledger story based on the 2010 internal report said.

A TSA spokeswoman described the situation in Newark as “isolated” and said the agency took action to fix it.

It seems that numerous “isolated” incidents keep cropping up at Newark airport. If the government refuses to get rid of the TSA, they, at least, need to get rid of the workers at the airport and hire some competent people.