Immigrant Registrations Obsolete And Active

One of the possible weapons that could have been used to target certain immigrants, especially Muslim immigrants, was removed from the Immigration Regulations of the Department of Homeland Security on December 23, 2016.

NSEERS, National Security Entry-Exit Registry System, was a post-9/11 reaction to terrorist attacks on our country.  Under the NSEERS program, approximately 90,000 non-immigrants in the US from 25 different countries were required to report to Immigration (then INS) and be personally interviewed to determine if they were in status or possibly a terrorist.  The program ran until 2011 and resulted in approximately 13,000 people being deported—none of whom were terrorists, virtually all of whom were Muslims who had merely overstayed their visas.  Of the listed countries, 24 of the 25 were predominately Muslim.