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US supervision cancels 9/11-era registry for foreigners
- Updated: December 23, 2016
Members of Join MoveOn and DRUM impetus past a White House during a critique to close down a existent Muslim registry module NSEERS in Washington U.S., Dec 12, 2016. PHOTO: Reuters
The US supervision is canceling an dead registry module for visitors from countries where nonconformist groups are operating, a devise identical to a Muslim registry deliberate by President-elect Donald Trump.
The Department of Homeland Security is rigourously finale a National Security Entry-Exit Registration Systems program, famous as NSEERS, by stealing old-fashioned regulations, orator Neema Hakim pronounced on Thursday.
Google, Apple and Uber among vital tech firms to exclude Trump’s Muslim registry
The order change will be published in a Federal Register on Friday and takes outcome immediately.
DHS resolved that a program, that was dangling in 2011, was surplus and emasculate and did not yield increasing security. Begun a year after a Sept. 11, 2001 al Qaeda attacks on a United States, a module stretched within a year to need registration from visitors from 25 countries, many of them with majority-Muslim populations.
“The inserted years have shown that NSEERS is not usually archaic though that a use would obstruct singular crew and resources from some-more effective measures,” Hakim said.
Trump was asked on Wednesday either he would support a Muslim registry, identical to a asleep DHS program, and he would not endorse or repudiate his skeleton to do so.
Several Trump transition aides have told Reuters a incoming Trump administration will not revive a program, nonetheless a pivotal Trump immigration adviser, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, has advocated a idea.
The proclamation came as a flourishing series of distinguished tech companies including Facebook, Twitter and Apple have told several news organizations that they would not assistance a Trump administration build a Muslim registry.
Earlier this month, employees during dozens of record companies also sealed an online oath vowing not to assistance Trump build a information registry to lane people formed on their sacrament or support in mass deportations. The petition has been sealed by some-more than 2,500 employees.
‘Failed program’
The Obama administration’s preference to rigourously finish a module drew regard from critics who pronounced it was discriminatory.
“I extol President Obama for his preference to idle NSEERS, a idle and ineffectual sovereign registry that targeted Muslims and undermined a core values,” New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman pronounced in a statement.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee welcomed a decision, job NSEERS a “failed module secure in discriminatory profiling.”
At one indicate in his campaign, Trump called for a proxy anathema on Muslims entering a nation as a means of fighting terrorism. That drew widespread critique during home and abroad, and Trump revised his offer to suspending immigration from regions deemed as exporting terrorism and where protected vetting could not be assured.
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Trump confidant Kellyanne Conway was asked on Thursday if a president-elect has corroborated divided from a thought of a Muslim registry.
“Well, he pronounced during a debate prolonged after he had creatively due that, that this would be some-more particularly tied to countries where we know they have a story of terrorism” Conway pronounced on ABC’s “Good Morning America.”
“This is not a finish ban,” combined Conway, who was named Trump’s White House advisor on Thursday.
Kobach, a Kansas secretary of state who helped write tough immigration laws in Arizona and elsewhere, told Reuters final month that Trump’s process advisers had discussed drafting a offer to return a registry for immigrants from Muslim countries.
Kobach helped pattern NSEERS while operative in a Justice Department underneath President George W. Bush.