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US probing prosecutions of migrants from Muslim-majority countries exposed by LA Times investigation

Shamsuddin Shams, a 25- year-old Afghan man who was a journalist back home, was prosecuted in 2022 in Texas after crossing the border seeking asylum. He spent eight months in prison. Shams now shares a room with three others in an apartment in El Cajon, California.

The Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation into the federal government's use of a little-known law to disproportionately prosecute and imprison migrants from Muslim-majority countries.

A Los Angeles published late last month revealed the disproportionate nature of the prosecutions in Del Rio, Texas. The Department of Justice's says that a "person's race,

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