Airport security lists flag citizens without giving any stated reason

Evidence

Hamza: I remember getting in the airport and I couldn’t do the electronic check-in on the kiosk. I had to go up to the ticket counter to get my boarding pass, and this was the first time I noticed that I was on the TSA list, because I went to the ticket counter because I was running late for my flight anyway. And I asked the person, “Why can’t I get my boarding pass through the kiosk? I’m not checking any bags.” They were like, “Sorry, sir, but you’re on the TSA security list.” And honestly, I remember I thought I was going to cry. I was so livid. Every emotion inside of me was just—it drove me nuts that they couldn’t tell me any real reason why I was on this list. And that went on for two years. I could never go to the kiosk; I always had to go to the ticket counter. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 176

Categorization

• XREF: Prime visceral interior-experience material the reader explicitly wants — connects to Beydoun and COINTELPRO surveillance scholarship on how state watchlisting humiliates suspects without explanation.
• SHARE: This kiosk-denial detail would resonate with someone compiling oral histories of post-9/11 racial profiling.