Congress approved the USA Patriot Act as a retort to the fanatic attacks of September 11, 2001. The Act allows federal officials better influence in tracking and intercepting road and rail network, equally for purposes of law enforcement and foreign intelligence congregation. It gives the Secretary of the Treasury authoritarian powers to fight inducement of US monetary institutions for foreign money-laundering purposes; it more actively works to close our borders to foreign terrorists and to detain and remove those within our borders; it establishes new crimes, new penalties and new procedural techniques for use against domestic and international terrorists. It is a law passed by Congress in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. It has had a sweeping effect on practices used by law enforcement agencies that can be used against not only suspected terrorists but people in general. FISA is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and is related to the Patriot Act. Two years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the Muslim community in America, victim of guilt by association, remains under siege. Profiled, harassed, reviled, attacked, peeped at by the CIA and the FBI, interrogated and permanently controlled at airports, the whole community felt excluded of American society. After the Japanese attack on the Pearl Harbor, more than 110,000 Japanese Americans on the West Coast were imprisoned in 10 relocation camps in the United States. However after 9/11 2001, the whole country is converted into a virtual detention camp for the Muslims by abridging their civil rights. (Danilov, Dan P., Kaye, Allen E (2001)
A statement released on Sept. 4 by three federal consultative committees the Virginia, Maryland and D.C. advisory committees to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said some tactics used in the government's war on terrorism pose threats to civil liberties, citing "racial profiling, searches, interrogations, detentions, deportations and violent raids on homes and businesses."...........
