A sort ofWhen FBI officials came to her parents’ apartment in New York and handcuffed her and her father, Dama Bah was 16 years old. Bach came to the United States from Guinea when he was two years old. In 2005, he spent six and a half weeks in a juvenile prison and was interrogated many times. The authorities believed that the black Muslim woman was an Islamist and possibly a suicide bomber-she never knew why. But the investigation resulted in her father being deported because he did not have a visa in the country. She herself was granted asylum in 2007, but it was discovered three years later that she was on the no-fly list because the allegations had never been tried in court.
After September 11, 2001, stories like Adama Bah, who is now an American, are not uncommon. According to the authorities, by 2011, about 3,000 people were arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Human rights organizations estimate that there are at least hundreds of thousands of people being monitored by the police for no reason.
Deregulation
Prior to this, the United States’ security and military institutions had assembled on an unprecedented scale. According to data from the Stimson Institute, by 2017, the government spent US$2.8 trillion on combating domestic and international terrorism. The “war on terrorism” should not only win in Afghanistan and Iraq, but also in the country. Many institutions that many people take for granted today were only created after September 11.
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This is the largest government reorganization since the end of the last century. cold warIn the fall of 2002, the government merged 22 agencies—the new Department of Homeland Security was supposed to strengthen national security. Since then, it has been responsible for tasks ranging from combating terrorism to cyber security and federal police training to border protection. With regard to the intelligence sector, the new position of the Director of National Intelligence was established in 2005 to better coordinate the cooperation of 17 departments and authorities.
At the same time, Congress and the Ministry of Justice under the leadership of the President relaxed George W. Bush Personnel monitoring rules based on standards such as religious and political activism. After September 11, 2001, the two sides strengthened military-police cooperation. Since the 1990s, this cooperation has flowed in billions of dollars as part of the “1033 Plan”, which aims to recover military equipment in police districts. Bush and his successor government encouraged the approximately 800,000 police officers in the United States to see themselves as part of the “war on terror.” US security officials have also received training in counter-terrorism tactics in other countries, especially Israel.
Ordinary citizens are also affected
At the same time, the government expanded the immigration authorities and established ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency). The main purpose of the new agency is to locate and expel immigrants who do not have valid visas. The close cooperation between immigration authorities and local police forces used to be an exception-now the government encourages them.
