NSEERS registry targeted nearly all Muslim-majority nations and detained thousands

Evidence

Twenty-four of the twenty-five countries of interest listed in the NSEERS legislation were Muslim-majority nations, which was a clear manifestation of the structural Islamophobic presumption that Muslim identity was correlative with terrorism. NSEERS was predominantly concerned with tracking the activity of Muslim immigrants, particularly while they were within the United States, as evidenced by the nations it honed in on and the arrests made after its enactment. Immediately after it went into force, 80,000 men were entered into the NSEERS registry, the vast majority of them Muslims, “2,870 of whom were detained and 13,799 placed in deportation proceedings within two years after 9/11.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 286

Categorization

• XREF: Directly relevant to the reader’s reading on Selod’s surveillance research and Rana’s apparatus framework. — connects to: NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations for fingerprinting and registration.; NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations regardless of actual terror risk; NSEERS registered eighty-three thousand immigrants but produced zero terrorism convictions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 447 (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 286

Broader Connections

• NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations for fingerprinting and registration. #corroborates (0.90)
• NSEERS targeted men from Muslim-majority nations regardless of actual terror risk #expands (0.80)
• NSEERS registered eighty-three thousand immigrants but produced zero terrorism convictions #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 447
• The NSI institutionalizes citizen participation in racialized surveillance of Muslims #expands (0.60) — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 474