A 2011 report appropriately titled Under the Radar: Muslims Deported, Detained, and Denied on Unsubstantiated Terrorism Allegations, released by the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University Law School, documents the ways in which the law has been used to “cast Muslims as dangerous threats to national security.” The report argues that “religious, cultural, and political affiliations and lawful activities of Muslims are being construed as dangerous terrorism-related factors to justify detention, deportation, and denial of immigration benefits.” One way in which this has happened is that Muslims have been presented as terrorists in cases that are actually about immigration violations. Charges brought against Muslim immigrants “are almost always ordinary immigration violations,” the report states, yet the government has routinely insinuated connections to terrorism without providing any proof of these allegations.

XREF: Relates to broader discussion of post-9/11 national security law and how immigration enforcement is weaponized against religious minorities.

Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politi…, loc. 455