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Special registration for Arabs and Muslims ends;
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Immigrationadvocatesarepushing for leniency for men fighting...
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9ARAMICA NY 177
JUNE 1 - 15, 2011GOT A STORY? INFO@ARAMICA.
COM
ARAb AMERICAN NEwS
Special registration for Arabs and Muslims ends;
leniency urged for those caught in scheme s webBY ARAMICA
Immigrationadvocatesarepushing for leniency for men fighting immigration cases stemming
from a controversial post-9/11
registration program, now that
the program has been scrapped.
TheNationalSecurityEntry-Exit
Registration System (NSEERS),
launched in 2002, demanded
special registration from immigrants from 27 mostly Arab and
Muslim countries, in an effort to
find terrorists.
Of the 80,000 men who registered,13,000wereputintodeportation proceedings, mostly for
immigrationviolations.
Advocates
estimate that hundreds of those
cases are unresolved, and that
hundreds more men are fighting
for immigration benefits denied
due to not registering.
The Department of Homeland
Security suspended NSEERS
on April 27, 2011, saying it had
beeneclipsedbynewmethodsof
collecting information about all
U.
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