Citizenship status does not protect Muslim Americans from state surveillance.

Evidence

Although he is a citizen, he is still unable to avoid profiling and he knows it is not based on criminal activity or behaviors but rather because of his religious identity. For Muslim Americans, their status as a citizen does not protect them from surveillance. The state defines Muslim men as a threat to security through these surveillance practices, revealing that all Americans do not enjoy the same privileges associated with citizenship, such as being viewed and treated as a loyal member of society. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 205

Categorization

• XREF: Directly anchors the reader’s ‘citizens as permanent suspects’ thesis; connects to Beydoun on the racialization of Muslims as a separate class of citizenship.