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Ashraf Maniar was surveilled and harassed at home in the U.S., and detained by a foreign government, after being placed on the terrorism watchlist.

Featured Video Hide This morning, the self-described “groyper” tweeted that he isn’t allowed to fly, which he called “overt political persecution.” Advertisement Hide So I’m on my way to a press conference to discuss how I’ve been banned from nearly all social media and tech services, and then I find out that I can’t even get there because I’ve been put on a no-fly list. This is overt political persecution. America is not a free country....

FALLS CHURCH, Va. (AP) — A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a challenge to the constitutionality of the government’s terrorist watchlist, ruling that the government deserves wide latitude in establishing programs designed to protect national security. A group of two dozen Muslim plaintiffs sued in 2016, saying their placement on the list had caused all kinds of difficulties in traveling and in other aspects of life. And they said the government’s administration of the list gave...

Yemeni men arrested at border were on FBI terrorist watch list By FOX 5 NY Staff Published  article In January and March 2021, the U.S. Border Patrol arrested two men from Yemen who are on the FBIs terrorism watch list. (U.S. Customs and Border protection images) CALEXICO, Calif. - In separate incidents in January and March, federal agents in California arrested two men from Yemen who entered the U.S. illegally and were on the FBIs terrorism watch list, officials said. U.S. Border Patrol ag...

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CAIR to Ask Entire 4th Circuit Court of Appeals to Review Decision Salvaging Unconstitutional Terror Watchlist News provided by Share this article Share this article WASHINGTON, March 31, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nations largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, said today it will ask the entire U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit to review a decision yesterday by a three-judge panel upholding the terror watchlist and overtur...

April 1, 2021 During the 2016 election, one of the major issues the media refused to discuss was the extent to which foreign-born nationals might play a role in jihadist terror attacks on U.S. soil. This was during the height of the debate over the admission of Syrian refugees and against the backdrop of the migrant crisis and subsequent terror attacks in Europe. (Indeed, there are signs the recent mass shooting on a grocery store in Colorado may have been an Islamist terror attack – the shoo...

The arrests are likely to add to the challenges that the Joe Biden administration is facing at the southern border over an allegedly soft immigration policy. The number of people seeking to enter the US is increasing in leaps and bounds, particularly unaccompanied kids, and that has bolstered the Republicans to target the current administration saying it is compromising with national security. The news of the arrests also came a day after a delegation of House Republicans visited the Texas bord...

The Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed to Congress today that four people arrested at the southern border since Oct. 1 match names on the FBI's Terrorist Screening Database, a congressional aide briefed on the correspondence told Axios. Why it matters: Three of the people arrested were from Yemen and one was from Serbia. The four arrests are more than the number of similar people taken into custody during recent full fiscal years, according to the source. In fiscal 2018, six peo...

Poor old Julian Assange – whistleblower went straight to Glenn Greenwald It appears former NSA contractor Edward Snowden is not the only leaker of secret US documents around, as the US government searches for another whistleblower in the aftermath of another leak of classified information. CNN reports that leaked documents related to a terrorist watch list and published by The Intercept (a site founded by Snowden confidante journalist Glenn Greenwald) didn’t even exist before Snowden quit ...