Every US administration from Nixon on ran surveillance and registration targeting Arabs and Muslims.

Evidence

In the 1980s, the Unites States government began to increasingly worry about terrorism in the wake of the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. As noted above, this fear resulted in every administration from Nixon onwards establishing surveillance and registration programs directed primarily at Iranians and Arabs but also Muslims from other parts of the world. The first World Trade Center bombing in 1993 exposed that we had, in fact, given asylum to terrorists. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 254

Categorization

• QUESTION: Check whether that 1993 frame ‘we had given asylum to terrorists’ is a claim she endorses or quotes from the security discourse.
• XREF: connects to: The 1972 Munich massacre launched US legal profiling of all Arabs — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 442; Every president since Nixon has legitimized and redirected racist resentments — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1220

Broader Connections

• The 1972 Munich massacre launched US legal profiling of all Arabs #expands (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 442
• Every president since Nixon has legitimized and redirected racist resentments #corroborates (0.72) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1220