We Are All Suspects Now:
Untold Stories from Immigrant Communities after 9/11

By Tram Nguyen
Foreward by Edwidge Danticat

Tram Nguyen reveals the human cost of the domestic war on terror and examines the impact of post-9/11 policies on those targeted because of immigration status, nationality and religion. Nguyen's evocative narrative reporting—about families, detainees, local leaders, community advocates and others—is from those living, and suffering, on the front lines. We meet Mohammad Butt, the first person to die inside detention after September 11, 2001, and the Saleems, who are fleeing Queens for Canada. We get acquainted with Abdullah Osman, a Somali cab driver, whose community in Minneapolis is desperately fighting to keep him from deportation. We even follow Chris Simcox, the self-proclaimed "citizen patroller" and founder of the Minute Men, as he prepares to monitor immigrant crossings on the U.S.-Mexico border.

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"In the fall of 2004, I too, suffered a devastating Department of Homeland Security-related loss, joining the post-9/11 suspect community in a way I had never expected or imagined...We are indeed, all of us, suspects."

-from the Foreward by Edwidge Danticat, author of The Dew Breaker