Muslim bans reclassified several nationalities as threatening enough to exclude.

Evidence

The sharia bans were followed by the Trump-era Muslim bans, barring citizens of several predominantly Muslim countries from entering the United States. Having fabricated the threat of invasion from a violent horde, all that remained was to prevent them from entering the county. The Trump administration’s executive orders were justified on national security grounds, but in practice what they meant was a five-year separation of families – leaving people unable to see their loved ones during important moments, such as weddings, births, and deaths. … The arsenal of laws used against Islam, Muslims, and Islamicized groups continues to expand, but they are never developed in isolation. Keeping out unwanted aliens by closing the borders has disproportionately impacted Middle Eastern refugees, Haitians, and Latinx peoples as well as Muslims who were subject to the Muslim bans. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 291

Categorization

• XREF: The claim that keeping out ‘unwanted aliens’ hits Middle Eastern refugees, Haitians, and Latinx peoples reinforces the earlier chapter on white domestic terrorism shaping immigration policy. — connects to: Once Islam itself is the problem, Muslims are permanently unassimilable. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 252; Declaring Muslims foreigners strips them of presumed citizenship and licenses violence — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 477; Racialized Muslim identity likely blocks immigrant Muslims from full citizenship benefits. (+6 more)
• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source

Broader Connections

• The travel ban instantiated a broader structural Islamophobia tying Muslim identity to terror suspicion #expands (0.95) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 469
• The expanded travel ban targeted heavily Muslim African nations. #exemplifies (0.92) — Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Global…, 351
• Declaring Muslims foreigners strips them of presumed citizenship and licenses violence #expands (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 477
• Racially coded threat claims justify exempting Muslims from ordinary zoning procedure. #exemplifies (0.85) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 350
• Cultural difference is racialized into immutable grounds for excluding Muslims from citizenship #expands (0.80)
• Racialized Muslim identity likely blocks immigrant Muslims from full citizenship benefits. #corroborates (0.75)