12-23-2016
Roudao - Erbil
ended the administration of US President Barack Obama on Thursday, officially " the national security system to record the entry and exit" (NSEERS), which met with sharp criticism from human rights bodies as practicing "discrimination" against the citizens of the majority of Islamic countries.
A spokesman for the US Department of Homeland Security, Naim Hakim, in a statement, said that the ministry will cancel the programprocedures, which was adopted after the September / September 11 , 2001 , attacks
and stopped the Obama administration to use the program already since 2011, which showed that "insignificant" , according to the statement, and that "consumes staff and resources away from more effective security measures."
Program "NSEERS" enacted under former President George W. Bush Jr. administration (January 20, 2001 to January 20, 2009).
Under the program, it must be on "certain foreign nationals and certain nationalities" residing in the United States to come to the immigration office in order to get their fingerprints and photographs and conduct personal meetings, and then follow up later on specified dates.
But the system of "special registration" only applies to people who hold visas are non - immigrant visa (including visas , tourism and labor), and applied only to men over the age of 16, as applied to persons from the list of the country which was considered by the Bush administration "havens for terrorists."
There were 25 countries on the "special registration" list; 24 of them were Muslim - majority countries, and 25 were North Korea.
Over the next decade, scored more than 80 thousand men in the "special registration database", Muslims and non - Muslims alike from countries suspected.
The move to cancel the "NSEERS" program less than a month after President - elect Donald Trump 's management, who has promised to establish a program to track and discrimination of Muslim immigrants in the United States and monitor their activities.
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