Request to End “Special Registration”

A group of organizations have asked Secretary of State Clinton and DHS Secretary Napolitano for an end to the “special registration” program, also known as the National Security Entry/Exit Registration System (NSEERS), which is focused on Arab and Muslim noncitizens and has been a part of the U.S. government’s security responses to September 11, 2001.  The groups incllude the American‐Arab Anti‐Discrimination Committee (ADC), American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Arab American Institute (AAI), National Immigration Forum (NIF), Rights Working Group (RWG), South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), and Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, Clinical Professor and Director of the Center for Immigrants’ Rights, Penn State.

KJ