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U.S. Ends Immigrant Registration Program

HeadlineDec 02, 2003

The Department of Homeland Security yesterday officially ended a year-old program that required tens of thousands of men mostly from Muslim register annually with immigration officials. During the first year of the program, nearly 84,000 men voluntarily registered and the government responded by moving to deport nearly 14,000 of them. [Archived Democracy Now! coverage: 1__ | 2__ | 3__ ]

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