A Post-9/11 Registration Effort Ends, but Not Its Effects

Sam Dolnick of the New York Times writes of the continuing impacts of the U.S. government’s “special registration” program for Arab and Muslim noncitizens.  The impacts linger despite the fact that the program was discontinued a little over a month ago, and despite the fact that the

“[t]he registration program uncovered little intelligence — 11 of the more than 85,000 men who came forward in the first year were found to have ties to terrorism — but it caught thousands of people who had been living in the country illegally, leading to a significant wave of deportations.”

KJ