Existing US law authorizes mass detention of Muslims without due process
Evidence
The USA PATRIOT Act brought back some of the language surrounding patriotism that was used to justify the internment of Japanese and Japanese Americans during World War II (Cole 2003). Specifically, the language used in the Enemy Alien Act, enacted in 1798, gives the president the authority to deport, detain, or expel any citizen of a country at war with the United States (Cole 2003). This act was a precursor to the internment of Japanese noncitizens and citizens alike. Muslims recognize that if another terrorist attack on the scale of the 9/11 occurs on American soil again, they could be detained and deported without due process or even interned. These anxieties are not unfounded. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a ban on Muslims entering the United States and for Muslims to wear ID cards. After a terrorist attack in Nice, France, in 2016 former house leader Newt Gingrich said all Muslims in America should have to take a test to see if they believed in sharia law and that all who fail this test should be deported out of the United States (Etehad 2016). On June 5, 2017, Fox News contributor Nigel Farage suggested there may be a need for internment camps for Muslims after a terrorist attack in London, England. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 572
Categorization
Category: Factual Claims
- XREF: The Enemy Alien Act legal lineage — a dormant legal instrument that could transmute a religious category into a detainable one overnight. Core to the MOC thread on legalized categories.
- QUESTION: Could algorithmic systems be the modern activation mechanism for such dormant legal categories — sorting who gets swept in?
Related
- Muslims fear internment because mainstream politicians have proposed it (similarity 0.92)
- Anti-Muslim measures replicate legal precedent for Japanese American internment (similarity 0.91)
- Patriot Act language echoes statutes that enabled Japanese internment (similarity 0.80)