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Tip Sheet: Know Your Rights

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Tip Sheet: Know Your Rights

These Know Your Rights (KYR) tip sheets summarize many of the same rights all Americans enjoy, but they focuses on issues Muslims more commonly face. They include information about rights as an employee; rights as a student; rights if stopped by the police; rights if federal law enforcement contacts you; rights if the Department of Homeland Security contacts you; rights as an airline passenger; how to tell if you might be on the no-fly list or a selectee list; what to do if faced with job discrimination; and how to respond to anti-Muslim hate crimes

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Topic(s): Employment, Immigration Legal Needs
Subtopic(s): Employment Rights
Population(s): Afghan Newcomers
Resource Type: Tip Sheet

Date: September 20, 2021
Language(s): Arabic, Bengali, Dari, English, Farsi, Pashto, Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian, Somali, Urdu
Target Audience(s): Newcomer
Author(s): Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)
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