The McClatchy newspapers reports federal law enforcement agencies have secretly established profiling techniques to screen immigrants based on their nationalities. According to a leaked memo, federal agencies have created an internal list of thirty-five countries that are of “special interest” for national security reasons. Most of the nations have significant Muslim or Arab populations. Almost 20 percent of the world’s countries are on the list, including key US allies such as Jordan, Turkey and Egypt. The government is proposing to classify immigrants as so-called “special interest aliens” simply if they have ties or sympathies with any of the listed countries.