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2001 United States anti-terrorism law
The federal legal definition of "" appears in the and codified at 18 U.S.C. § 2331: it describes activities that involve acts dangerous to human life, violate criminal law, appear intended to intimida...
— and in limited cases transfer — foreign sovereign assets through a mix of statutory authorities, executive orders implemented by ’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (), civil-forfeiture statutes enf...
Internet service providers can be compelled to turn over customers’ browsing or viewing records to law enforcement, but the legal path and burden vary by the type of data, the agency making the reques...
is a broad 2001 law written to give and intelligence agencies faster, wider tools to detect, investigate and punish terrorism; in plain terms it loosened some rules about surveillance, access to third...
The legal framework for removing immigrants from Muslim-majority countries combines broad statutory presidential powers, immigration statutes that permit removal for crimes or status violations, and p...
The FBI’s surveillance of left-wing and activist groups expanded after the USA PATRIOT Act through broader investigative authorities and data collection, producing documented instances of inappropriat...
ports of entry use layered vetting that combines document checks, advance passenger data, biometric collection, and automated database matching to decide admissibility . Those systems have been increm...
that are controlled by or belong to fall into a web of U.S. statutes and regulatory tools: tax and anti‑money‑laundering reporting regimes (, FBAR/BSA), counter‑terrorism and correspondent‑account pow...
administrations have long relied on a mix of executive sanctions, legal tools tied to U.S. correspondent banking relationships, and multilateral cooperation to freeze — and occasionally transfer — for...