Many of the post-9/11 initiatives, though motivated and supported by a desire to address national security concerns, have increasingly become highly effective tools to track, apprehend, and remove run-of-the-mill unauthorized immigrants who pose no security threat. This has occurred against the backdrop of an historic rise in illegal immigration.
The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, which caused major ripples across so many facets of American life — from defense policy and the United States' relations