News & Commentary about Watchlists
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Sep 9, 2021
The Watchlisting System Exemplifies the Government’s Post-9/11 Embrace of Biased Profiling
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Apr 6, 2021
I Refused to Become an FBI Informant, and the Government Put Me on the No Fly List
![Sagal Abdigani and Abdisalam Wilwal](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-sagal-abdigani-and-abdisalam-wilwal-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jul 17, 2017
What This American Family Went Through at the Border Was Clearly Unconstitutional
![Sagal Abdigani](https://assets.aclu.org/live/uploads/2019/09/web17-sagalabdigani-1160x768-400x266.jpg)
Jul 13, 2017
My Family and I Were Detained at Gunpoint and Then Held for Hours at the US-Canada Border. I’m Afraid It Will Happen Again.
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Aug 10, 2016
The Government’s Own Rules Show Why Watchlists Make Bad Policy
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Jun 20, 2016
The Use of Error-Prone and Unfair Watchlists Is Not the Way to Regulate Guns in America
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Feb 5, 2016
The Privatization of Terrorism Blacklists Will Damage Innocent Lives
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Dec 7, 2015
Until the No Fly List Is Fixed, It Shouldn’t Be Used to Restrict People’s Freedoms
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Aug 13, 2015
The Government's 'Predictive Judgments' Land Innocent Travelers on the No Fly List Without Meaningful Redress