; Whereas by July 2003, the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System slated 13,000 out of 83,000 registered men and boys for deportation, decimating entire communities and resulting in zero terror-related convictions; Whereas the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Immigration and Naturalization Service questioned thousands of Muslims who they believed might have information about or connections to criminal activity based on improper criteria such as officer hunch or an anonymous tip from people wrongfully suspicious of their Muslim neighbors; Whereas immediately after the September 11 attacks, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and immigration authorities arrested and detained as many as 1,200 Muslims, and none of these “special interest” detained people were ultimately indicted for terrorist activity; Whereas to this day, Joint Terrorism Task Forces Preemptive Prosecutions, Countering Violent Extremism Programs, 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 profile and unfairly target Arab, Muslim, Middle Eastern, South Asian, Sikh, Black, and African communities; Whereas many politicians and influential members of the general public continue to explicitly endorse, espouse and act upon this hateful rhetoric and use it for their own political benefit, including Members of Congress and State and local elected officials