Muslim immigrants are detained for minor immigration violations that normally escape detention

Evidence

Another nightmare that Muslim citizens and immigrants have endured is arrest and detention for long periods of time. The law has been bent to allow such detentions in the name of national security. Under the Radar highlights a trend where Muslim immigrants are painted as threats and detained for minor immigration violations that do not normally warrant detention. Even those who have not broken the law sometimes find themselves in detention centers. In her book Patriot Acts, Alia Malek tells the story of a teenager who was detained on suspicion of being a terrorist: On March 24, 2005, Adama Bah, a sixteen-year-old Muslim girl, awoke at dawn to discover nearly a dozen armed FBI agents inside her family’s apartment in East Harlem. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 564

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Tens of thousands of US Muslims faced registry, arbitrary arrest, detention or deportation; Ordinary immigration violations were repeatedly framed as terrorism with no proof — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 562; Muslims are framed as terrorists in cases only about immigration violations — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 562 (+8 more)

Broader Connections

• Political dissidence plus Muslim identity turned a trivial immigration error into a deportation case #exemplifies (0.85) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 890
• Immigration detention can imprison people who committed no crime #expands (0.85) — Moustafa Bayoumi, How Does It Feel to Be a Problem? Being…, 159
• Racial Muslims are treated as suspect race and permanent foreigners #expands (0.80)
• Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies #expands (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 580
• Immigration agents presumed Middle Easterners Muslim and therefore unassimilable #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 179
• Declaring Muslims foreigners strips them of presumed citizenship and licenses violence #expands (0.75) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 477
• Racialized Muslim identity likely blocks immigrant Muslims from full citizenship benefits. #expands (0.72)
• Ordinary immigration violations are routinely relabeled as terrorism charges #qualifies (0.70) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 455