War on Terror security measures enable greater domestic police repression against minorities

Evidence

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor drew additional connections unseen by many, observing that “the ever-expanding security state, justified by the ‘War on Terror,’ becomes the pretext for greater police repression at home—which, of course, disproportionately affects African Americans and Latino/as in border regions.” — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1125

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to the reader’s stated purpose of reading Iftikhar for the global-synthesis view and to the domestic/War-on-Terror nexus. — connects to: Foreign wars redraw internal racial borders that target domestic civilians of enemy descent — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 548; Grassroots coalitions connected NYPD Muslim profiling to black, Latino, and anti-capitalist repression.; Grassroots activism linked racial profiling with police repression across groups (+4 more)