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This paper describes how in reaction to security concerns following the events of 11 September 2001 revised legislative initiatives to combat international terror have had a deleterious effect on immigrants and immigration on both sides of the Atlantic. The author examines these circumstances, first by examining actual rules in place at the end of 2001 and then changes in these rules during the period since then in Britain, France and the US. The paper finds that the reactions to patterns of terrorism since 2001 in the US and Europe have been generally shaped by the ways that each country dealt with very different patterns of terrorism before 2001.