Nearly Deported for being Muslim

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1. Before Trump, there was a Muslim registry. It caught no terrorists

Before Trump, there was a Muslim registry. It caught no terrorists

By HANNAH ALLAM - DECEMBER 8, 2016 4:40 PM

WASHINGTON
Kamal Essaheb has vivid memories of the freezing day in 2003 when he, his two brothers and their father took a train to New York City’s federal building to join a long line of brown men waiting to be fingerprinted, photographed and asked: “Are you a terrorist?”

Essaheb recalled the fear and confusion on the men’s faces as, one by one, their names were added to a post-9/11 registry for immigrants from 24 Muslim-majority countries and North Korea.

The Essaheb men were placed in deportation proceedings, the beginning of a nightmare that took years and the intervention of advocacy groups to resolve, narrowly sparing them the fate of 13,000 mostly Muslim immigrants who were removed from the United States under the now-defunct program...


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2. I had no idea

this was set up. We cannot let this happen again. Thanks for sharing.