Tens of thousands of US Muslims faced registry, arbitrary arrest, detention or deportation

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 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The US registered and deported tens of thousands of Muslims on non-terrorism charges; NSEERS registry targeted nearly all Muslim-majority nations and detained thousands — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 286; US visa fingerprinting targeted Muslim-majority countries while exempting European terrorist groups — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 193 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• The US registered and deported tens of thousands of Muslims on non-terrorism charges #corroborates (0.95)
• NSEERS registry targeted nearly all Muslim-majority nations and detained thousands #expands (0.90) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 286
• Fear of state detention and deportation corrodes Muslim Americans’ sense of citizenship #expands (0.85)
• Muslim immigrants are detained for minor immigration violations that normally escape detention #expands (0.85) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 564
• US visa fingerprinting targeted Muslim-majority countries while exempting European terrorist groups #expands (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 193
• Muslim identity is criminalized by national security policies #expands (0.80) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 874
• Detention and deportation regimes discipline the Muslim body through fear #expands (0.80)
• Muslims are presumed guilty until proven innocent in US enforcement #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 448
• Hundreds of Muslims were renditioned and detained without trial after 2001. #corroborates (0.80) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 333