Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor drew additional connections unseen by many, observing that "the ever-expanding security state, justified by the 'War on Terror,' becomes the pretext for greater police repression at home—which, of course, disproportionately affects African Americans and Latino/as in border regions."

XREF: Connects to broader scholarship on the domestic-external security continuum, such as the militarization of policing literature.

Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamopho…, loc. 1125