The Deported
Post 9/11, the US government has suspended many constitutional rights for their so called 'War on Terror'. Arab and Muslim men are routinely arrested and deported without charge as part of this discriminatory backlash.
"Civil liberties and human rights are all things of the past. This whole matter of democracy and liberty is just a myth now." These words are spoken by Rabih Haddad, who fled the violent civil war in Lebanon and arrived in the US in 1980. In 1992 he founded the Global Relief Foundation(GRF), the 2nd largest Islamic charity in the US. 3 months after 9/11 the government designated his charity a terrorist entity, he was arrested, denied bail and put in solitary confinement.
John Ashcroft, Attorney General says "the Department of Justice is waging a deliberate campaign of arrest and detention to protect American lives. We will use every constitutional tool to keep suspected terrorists locked up."
To this day not a single charge has been filed against Rabih, the GRF, or any of it's employees. Defence Attorney Charles Kuck says "they don't have the evidence in these cases, and that's what they see as the beauty of immigration court."
A revealing montage of archival US news depicts the rhetoric of discrimination picketed against Arab and Muslim immigrants. A man speaking live on Fox News says, "if you are an 18-20 year old Muslim man then you should be strip searched." These bona-fide racist views in the media are shown to perpetuate false perceptions about American Muslims, categorising them all as terrorists.
Through frank first person accounts this investigative documentary tells the stories of 3 Arab Muslim men living in America who have all been unjustly targeted by the US Judicial System. Families are broken and lives ruined as the American political powerhouse sidelines constitutional rights and people are routinely discriminated in it's so called 'War on Terror'.
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