Sending a package to Pakistan triggered an FBI home visit

Evidence

Maham also told me about a time the FBI visited her at home late one evening. One afternoon, shortly after 9/11, she went to the post office to mail some clothes to Pakistan to her relatives. Her husband waited in the car while she went into the post office to mail the package. Later that evening, Maham, who wears the hijab, was putting her young kids to bed when there was a knock on the door. — Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, 336

Categorization

• XREF: The mundane act of mailing clothes to relatives as suspicious behavior — connects to the reader’s theme of citizens turned into permanent suspects through ordinary acts.