Foreign Terrorist Designations Pose Civil Liberties Concerns

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https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/foreign-terrorist-designations-pose-civil-liberties-concerns

Foreign Antifa designations risk enabling surveillance of domestic critics by creating a foreign nexus for expanded counterterrorism powers.

FTO status is typically reserved for groups that have killed Americans, targeted U.S. security interests, or demonstrated the capacity and intent to do either, such as al-Qaeda,the Islamic State, Hezbollah, and the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. The purpose of designation is to expose, isolate, and delegitimize terrorist organizations. Designation as an FTO brings significant legal consequences; members of a listed group may be expelled from the United States and have their assets seized.

The newly designated groups, however, look nothing like the foreign terrorist organizations historically designated under U.S. law.