DHS Quietly Kills âRedundantâ Counterterrorism Program

The Department of Homeland Security has quietly eliminated a post-9/11 counterterrorism information that required men from Islamic countries with astir terrorist organizations to run with federal polity upon entering the United States.

Known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) the information was created to intercept Islamic terrorists like the ones who hijacked airplanes and murdered thousands of Americans in 2001. Most were men who entered the U.S. with jural visas and would hit been required to run with migration polity low NSEERS.

Active terrorist organizations like Al-Qaeda control in every of the countries listed on the now-defunct Homeland Security NSEERS list. They allow Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, North Korea, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Arabian Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen.

In a largely forgotten federal run note announcing the end of NSEERS, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano asserts that its “redundant” and “no individual provides any process in security” because her authority has implemented “several newborn automated systems” that getting the same arrival and exit accumulation of nonimmigrant travelers to the U.S.

Madam Secretary boost explains in the declaration that there’s been an phylogenesis in coercion that apparently makes NSEERS unnecessary. “As threats to the United States evolve, DHS seeks to identify limited individuals and actions that bear limited threats, kinda than centering on more generalized designations of groups of individuals, such as land of origin.”

This certainly sounds like it could be still another move by the Obama Administration to placate Muslims. After all, throughout the counterterrorism program’s six eld an grey of politically-connected Islamic rights groups decried it as unfairly promoting interracial profiling.

In the terminal assemblage the brass has heeded to some of their calls by launching an aggressive Islamic outreach effort that includes domestic section meetings with extremist groups, arrangement the nation’s space authority (NASA) to focus on Islamic diplomacy and a primary visit allowing the reentry of digit radical Islamic academics whose terrorist ties daylong illegal them from the U.S.

The Justice Department also created a primary Arab-American and Islamic Engagement Advisory Group to boost greater communication, cooperation and newborn level of attitude between accumulation enforcement and Islamic and Arab-American communities. The fruits of its labor were evident during a weekend assail on a Florida masjid with terrorist ties. Federal agents conducted it low new rules of engagement to assure social sensitivity towards Islam.