This study challenges the dichotomy within security discourse. Previous studies have mostly demonstrated how security discourse may construct a referent object as a threatening ‘other’, or as an integral and essential part of the social ‘we’ faced with an external security threat. However, this conventional binary division is not necessarily always correct, especially when it comes to liminal groups, which require a more complex and dynamic theoretical observation. Inspired by Policy Analytic Framing, the study examines how the use of liminal security discourse enables the state to design separate policy arrangements toward liminal groups while maintaining its conflicting interests and needs. The case study presented here is the Israeli immigration policy toward high-level Palestinian collaborators over the past four decades.