White domestic terror produced immigration crackdowns targeting Muslims and Latinos

Evidence

In fact, that association was so strong that witnesses claimed to have seen “Middle Eastern looking” men fleeing from the site of the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. Even after it was discovered to be the act of homegrown, white male terrorists, violence was directed at Arab communities. The Clinton administration’s legal reaction was further stigmatizing: it passed immigration reforms as though the attack had, in fact, come from immigrants. The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act resulted in the massive dragnet operation and roundup of Latino and Middle Eastern men who then faced immigration detention and deportation. To underscore the absurdity: a terrorist attack that killed over 160 people perpetrated by an American white man resulted in the targeting and deportation of immigrant Latino and Muslim men through immigration law. — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 257

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels The New Crusades’ claim that every president sustained the War on Terror framework; also shows how racialized targets were designated by appearance, not nationality. — connects to: A white domestic terrorist attack triggered deportation of innocent immigrant men — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 257; White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists; Domestic War on Terror policing targets immigrants through racialized geography and profiles — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims: Race and Labor in…, 844 (+15 more)

Broader Connections

• A white domestic terrorist attack triggered deportation of innocent immigrant men #exemplifies (0.95) — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 257
• A domestic terrorist attack by a citizen triggered laws targeting immigrants #exemplifies (0.93)
• White domestic terrorism still shapes immigration policy because Arabs are visually raced as terrorists #expands (0.88)
• Anti-terror and immigration policies become conflated in framing Muslims as foreign enemies #expands (0.86) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 580
• Domestic War on Terror policing targets immigrants through racialized geography and profiles #expands (0.85) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 844
• Counterterrorism targets Muslims while downplaying surging White supremacist violence #corroborates (0.84) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 950
• US illegality construction targets Muslims through racialized criminality and suspected future terror #expands (0.82)
• Anti-terror discourse functions to police transnational migration by racializing Muslims #expands (0.82) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 336
• The War on Terror created deportable subjects racialized as illegal and criminal #expands (0.80) — Junaid Rana, Terrifying Muslims, 647
• War on Terror security measures enable greater domestic police repression against minorities #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1125
• The War on Terror racially constructed Muslims as terrorists. #expands (0.80)
• White perpetrators are categorically dissociated from the label of terrorism. #corroborates (0.80) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 934
• White supremacist terror was overlooked as a global threat because of perpetrators’ racial identity #corroborates (0.79) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 922
• White male domestic terrorists escape the racial inquisition Islam receives #corroborates (0.78) — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 705
• Muslims are framed as terrorists in cases only about immigration violations #expands (0.78) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 562