Patriot Act language echoes statutes that enabled Japanese internment

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. — , Selod, Saher - Forever Suspect_…, 572

Categorization

• XREF: Historical through-line connecting anti-Muslim surveillance to the Japanese internment precedent; echoes the reader’s wider mapping of the racial enemy slot. — connects to: The Patriot Act spatially policed the domestic public sphere; War on Terror rhetoric recycled the enemy-alien logic of Japanese internment.; PATRIOT Act language revived the legal framework used to intern Japanese Americans (+4 more)
• QUESTION: Worth tracing the exact textual parallels between PATRIOT Act language and the 1798 Enemy Alien Act.

Broader Connections

• PATRIOT Act language revived the legal framework used to intern Japanese Americans #corroborates (0.85)