The Council on American-Islamic Relations says almost all the names in the Terrorist Screening Database are Muslim or of Middle Eastern decent.
the list is nearly entirely populated by Muslim names or the names of people who appear to be of Middle Eastern descent.
Khairullah said he believes he was removed from the watchlist — formerly known as the FBI's Terrorist Screening Dataset, and also used to populate lists by other agencies — sometime before being disinvited to the White House. CAIR attorney Hannah Mullen said during the press conference agencies will often use a person's former status on the watch list as a reason for scrutiny.
CAIR and the plaintiffs said the watchlist is unconstitutional. They named officials with several agencies — including the FBI, the Terrorism Screening Center, the Department of Transportation and ICE — as defendants. But Ayah Zaki, a civil rights attorney with CAIR’s New Jersey chapter, said the organization is aware of several other people whose travel was disrupted by the watchlist. He described a Bergen County resident in his 20s detained at Newark Airport after traveling to see family in Turkey, asked questions including “have you been in contact with terrorist organizations?”
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