After 9/11, the government feared that anyone of Arab descent posed a threat to national security. The result of this paranoia was invasive laws against this ethnic group. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks, the Department of Justice launched a large pretrial detention program (immediately after 9/11). It was the first large-scale confinement of a group of people based on country of origin or descent since Japanese internment. (American Civil Liberties Union 4) Although the government was almost certain that one of these men was connected to the attacks, among the thousands of men detained and interrogated, none were publicly accused of terrorism (5) . The government acted solely out of paranoia about the Arab race, and as a result, thousands of men were subjected to discriminatory confinement. Government paranoia regarding Arab Americans reached an all-time high in June 2002, when the National Security Exit Record System (NSEERS) was implemented by Attorney General John Ashcroft. NSEERS included a program called Special Registration, which would require all male citizens over the age of 15 from 25 specific countries to register, be fingerprinted, photographed, and interviewed. With the exception of North Korea, all of the countries targeted were Arab and Muslim.(6) The estimated 84,000 men were all required to register with the government and undergo interrogation.(9). Those who did not register, despite not having been individually informed, were liable not only to criminal sanctions, but also to deportation. The discriminatory rules and regulations that the government has implemented against Arab Americans since September 11, 2001 do not appear to have moved America forward at all....middle of paper...s. (FBI) Many resort to hate crimes to seek revenge for the September 11 attacks, even though the majority of Arab Americans were not involved in the attacks. These crimes range from forced hair cutting despite Muslim religion to radical acts such as murder. (The Leadership Conference). The motivations of the attackers who committed these crimes were mainly related to hatred and committed because the terrorists involved in the attacks were of Arab origin. (The Leadership Conference) In September 2004, eight Muslim female students at the University of California-Berkley were approached by three white males. These men splashed water on them, threw bottles, shouted derogatory statements and mocked the traditional hijab worn by some Muslim women. (Civil Rights) This is just one of thousands of cases that Arab Americans have faced since the terrorist attacks of September 11..