Posted on 12/12/2016 4:01:49 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Thousands of American Muslims and activists from progressive groups will march on the White House on Monday in a last-ditch effort to persuade Barack Obama to dismantle a discriminatory program that singled out Arabs and Muslims for surveillance, before it falls into the hands of Donald Trump.
Obama has less than six weeks to rescind the regulatory framework of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERs), an openly discriminatory registry that was introduced in the wake of 9/11 and mothballed in 2011. Civil rights groups fear that should the program still be in place when Trump enters the White House on 20 January he could revive it very quickly, making his threat to impose a database of Muslims a reality.
Talks have been proceeding at the highest levels of the Obama administration, involving senior officials from both White House and Department of Homeland Security. The Guardian understands that scrapping NSEERs is actively being considered within the administration as one of the most concrete steps that the current president could take to protect vulnerable groups and individuals from the threatened actions of his successor....
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Move 'em out!"
Obama as Grand Mufti?
If it is so horrible why did Mr. Obama let it remain in place for his entire presidency.
The fact is, it’s been in place longer under Obama than it was under Bush.
Facial recognition software- it’s a wonderful thing. Sometimes.
deport them!
problem solved
I wonder how many unauthorized backups were made of the registery so far this week?
Good opportunity to film the crowd and identify more terrorists.
Great idea! They should submit a petition too! Just need their names and addresses on the form.
a target-rich environment ...
I know common sense for a liberal is not int he same sentence, but the reason we look at muslims more is because it is muslims which try to kill us.
Now if the NAZIS, Germans, Japs, Hindu’s, whatever we would still watch them if they were attacking us, and calling death to us.
because he’s not crazy enough to have a major attack during HIS presidency!
Wait a minute, you mean there already IS a registry and it was begun by the Obama Administration? Was all the hoopla about Trump ‘thinking about registering all Muslims’ simply a way to hope no one found out about the one that already existed?
***to dismantle a discriminatory program that singled out Arabs and Muslims for surveillance,***
The cockroaches flee from the light.
It was started during the GW Bush administration and continued by Obama, but your point is a good one.
I’m so discriminated against. I am on a registry in Germany for my residency visa. BOO HOO
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