Obama just made it much harder for Trump to build his Muslim registry

[Imperialism Inc.]

Obama just made it much harder for Trump to build his “Muslim registry”
http://www.vox.com/2016/12/22/14053190/obama-nseers-trump-muslim

On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security published a regulation that would totally get rid of the National Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) — forcing the Trump administration to take the time to create something new, and giving civil rights groups an opportunity to stop them.

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When the Bush administration created the NSEERS program in 2002, though, they did have to go through the traditional regulatory process — including allowing the public to submit comments and concerns, and responding to them.

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But now that the Trump administration won’t have the ability to simply reanimate existing regulations, it will have to, rhetorically, go back to square one. It will have to propose a new set of regulations to register and track people from particular countries during their time in the US. And it will have to argue, as the Bush administration did, that it isn’t using Muslim-majority countries as a proxy to “invidiously discriminate” against Muslims — something it might struggle to persuasively do.

That could be a valuable opportunity for Democrats and civil rights lawyers to block, or at least slow, the new registry. They might not succeed — but they certainly have a bigger chance than they would have if Donald Trump, on day one of his administration, were simply adding countries back to the list to restart a program that Obama had turned off but never taken apart.

[think]

1. Excellent move. /nt

[AllenJordan]

2. This will just allow him to craft one of his own making.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

3. Which I'm sure bothers the shit gibbon to no end.