Maryam's fear reflects the impact surveillance has on American citizens. Muslim Americans did not feel the protection that citizenship should entail but rather worried the state could detain them and deny them due process because of their association with terror. The fear of being deported and detained comes with a psychological cost.

XREF: Connects to broader literature on surveillance and minority communities, and to the psychological toll of state suspicion.

Saher Selod, Forever Suspect_ Racialized…, loc. 410