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The BS of National Security Entry-Exit Registration System

In November 2002, Congress enacted the Homeland Security Act, which brought more than twenty federal agencies: Transportation Security Administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and a set of immigration agencies including Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and Customs and Border Protection .. policies that targeted South Asian, Arab, and Muslim immigrants

The Patriot Act took AEDPA several steps further. It increased the federal government's powers to conduct searches, surveil-lance, and detentions with little oversight or governance. Some of the most criticized aspects of the Patriot Act include the ability of government officials to conduct searches and seizures without meeting the constitutional standard of probable cause if they suspect terrorist activity.

One well-known example involves a group called the Dotbusters who threatened violent action against Indian immigrants settling in Jersey City, New Jersey, in the late 1980s … this phenomenon of ‘move-out’ violence forcing new immigrants communities to leave through acts of harassment and physical violence —