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Whereas the 2002 National Security Entry-Exit Registration 
System required men and boys as young as 16 years of 
age with temporary visas from 25 predominantly Muslim 
countries to register at local immigration offices for 
fingerprinting, photographs, and invasive interviews; 
Whereas by July 2003, the National Security Entry-Exit 
Registration System slated 13,000 out of 83,000 reg-
istered men and boys for deportation, decimating entire 
communities and resulting in zero terror-related convic-
tions; 
Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Immi-
gration and Naturalization Service questioned thousands 
of Muslims who they believed might have information 
about or connections to criminal activity based on im-
proper criteria such as officer hunch or an anonymous tip 
from people wrongfully suspicious of their Muslim neigh-
bors; 
Whereas immediately after the September 11 attacks, the 
Federal Bureau of Investigation and immigration au-
thorities arrested and detained as many as 1,200 Mus-
lims, and none of these ‘‘special interest’’ detained people 
were ultimately indicted for terrorist activity; 
Whereas to this day, Joint Terrorism Task Forces Preemp-
tive Prosecutions, Countering Violent Extremism Pro-
grams, Suspicious Activity Reporting, Watchlists, Fusion 
Centers, the permissive Department of Justice Racial 
Profiling Guidance that was updated in collaboration 
with the Department of Homeland Security, ongoing 
delays in immigrant processing and visa administration 
in part due to the lingering effects of the travel bans on 
people from Muslim and Black-majority countries from 
entering the United States, and other policies continue to 
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profile and unfairly target Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, 
South Asian, Sikh, Black, and African communities; 
Whereas many politicians and influential members of the gen-
eral public continue to explicitly endorse, espouse and act 
upon this hateful rhetoric and use it for their own polit-
ical benefit, including Members of Congress and State 
and local elected officials; and 
Whereas Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and 
Sikh communities have met these challenges with unwav-
ering courage, strength, compassion, and resilience, and 
united in the aftermath of 9/11 to advocate for civil and 
human rights, work which continues to this day to benefit 
all Americans: Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) condemns all manifestations and expres-
sions 
of 
racism, 
xenophobia, 
discrimination, 
scapegoating, and ethnic or religious bigotry; 
(2) acknowledges the climate of hate that Arab, 
Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and Sikh 
communities have experienced since September 11, 
2001; 
(3) acknowledges that the government imple-
mented policies that profiled and unfairly targeted 
Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian, and 
Sikh communities after September 11, 2001; 
(4) calls for the creation of an interagency task 
force to work with community-based organizations to 
review these government policies, investigate and 
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document their impact, and dismantle those policies 
which continue to profile and unfairly target these 
communities; 
(5) calls for hearings by congressional and civil 
rights bodies to explore the findings and rec-
ommendations of this interagency task force in con-
sultation with and centering community-based orga-
nizations; 
(6) supports allocating resources to community- 
based organizations outside and independent of law 
enforcement that center the experiences and de-
mands of Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South 
Asian, and Sikh communities to— 
(A) support hate crime prevention and the 
needs of victims of hate and State violence, in-
cluding language support, mental health, com-
prehensive support, system navigation, and cri-
sis response and recovery; and 
(B) create alternatives to law enforcement 
and transformative justice programs that are 
culturally and linguistically accessible and focus 
on vulnerable populations within these commu-
nities including but not limited to working class 
people, undocumented and immigrant commu-
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nities, women, non-binary, and LGBTQ com-
munities; and 
(7) calls the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services, the National Institutes of Health, and the 
National Science Foundation to work together to 
study the impact of hate, government targeting, po-
litical rhetoric, and profiling on physical and mental 
health. 
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