The language of “national security” and “enemy aliens” that emerged into the parlance of the day during the War on Terror was also not new. These terms, and the hysteria that surrounded them, were first deployed to round up Japanese people on the American West Coast from 1942 through 1946. Nearly 120,000 people of Japanese descent were forcibly removed from their homes and placed in concentration camps after the Pearl Harbor attacks of December 7, 1941.

XREF: Connects the terminology of national security and enemy aliens from WWII internment to its reuse in the War on Terror. DEFINE: Identifies 'national security' and 'enemy aliens' as historically recycled discursive terms.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 224