Unreasonable Intrusion 2009 Report

2018

The sustained fixation on Muslims as the perennial suspects in domestic terrorism is a stereotype that continues to pervade counter-intelligence driven efforts. This research analyzes 113 cases of FBI contact with US Muslims living in Los Angeles, CA. Based upon these cases, this research suggests that every day, normal behavior becomes suspicious only when practiced by US Muslims, which would otherwise be acceptable, mundane, and unremarkable for ordinary white Christians, therefore constituting a form of "racialized state surveillance." The most prevalent questions asked by FBI agents to Muslims in this study were regarding religious practices or affiliation with religious organizations demonstrating the FBI faultily presumes that Muslim ties to their community and faith is abnormal, and worthy of state surveillance. This research reveals that FBI contact with Muslims is often not reliant upon actual indications of criminal activity, but instead the contact is predicated upon the suspicion of who is engaged in these behaviors. Under racialized state surveillance, these actions become hyperscrutinized and deemed worthy of FBI assessment.

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Surveillance & Society, 2021

1994

/Useenforcementtoeasesituation_000.pdf. (urging D of immigration attrition through enforcement, that is, forcing immigrants out by making U hospitable). See generally Center for Immigration Studies, Illegal Immigration, http://www.cis.org/topics/illegalimmigration.html (last visited Sept. 24, 2007) (containing articles discussing the social ills created by undocumed migration). 6 See R CH RD G ISWOLD EL CAST O, TH TREATY OF G LUPE-HIDALG I A R D ILL E UADA O: A L 173 (Univ. of Okla. Press 1990). 7 Consider, for example, agriculture. The United States' yearly farm subsidies in the billion The prominence of the immigration issue in public discourse in 2007 forced 9 Ultimately, path to lection. 10 In the eground for rity ("DHS") has made inside-the-border enforcement of immigration a priority, particularly targeting undocum 11 tionately targeted s. In the 1970s, the igration enforcement, even if with increased tolerance for racial profiling. However, as discussed in this Article, through a subsequent series of sweeping decisions, the Fourth Amendment has become moribund, barely able to grant any privacy protections to Congress to seriously consider comprehensive immigration reform. Congress did not act. Consequently, undocumented immigrants' hope of a legalization probably will have to wait until after the 2008 presidential e meantime, immigration raids have intensified and become a political battl anti-immigrant sentiment. Since 2002, the Department of Homeland Secu ented workers, incarcerated immigrants, suspected gang members, and persons with a final order of removal. In this battle, not unlike the "war on drugs," which dispropor Blacks, 12 a casualty has been noncitizens' Fourth Amendment right U.S. Supreme Court declared that the Fourth Amendment applied to imm 13 noncitizens, particularly in the realm of immigration enforcement.