Identity-based profiling violates the Fourth Amendment and fails to prevent attacks

Evidence

The interviews also revealed that South Asian and Arab men and women, regardless of their status as Americans, were surveilled by both the state and their fellow citizens because of their religious identity. South Asian and Arab Muslim Americans had similar experiences to one another because of the way their religious identity was interpreted. Their ethnicity as South Asian or Arab intersected with their Muslim identity and gender in salient ways that impacted social interactions in their everyday lives because it had made them a target for surveillance. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 104 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

  • XREF: connects to: Religious identity can be racialized when signifiers trigger profiling; Muslim identity overrides American citizenship in airport profiling — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 222; Airport profiling of Muslims is systemic and state-institutionalized rather than random — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 285 (+12 more)

Broader Connections