Donald Trump's team 'discussing plans for Muslim registration system'

[tenderfoot]

Break out those felt crescent moon lapel badges!!!

We have new scapegoat for all of the nation's problems!


Donald Trump's team 'discussing plans for Muslim registration system'
Immigration hardliner says plans underway for programme to force Muslims register on database

Donald Trump’s policy advisers are discussing plans to establish a registry for Muslim immigrants in the US, a man believed to be a key member of the President-elect's transition team has revealed.

Kris Kobach, the secretary of state for Kansas, said the President-elect’s advisers were looking at how to implement a proposal suggested by the billionaire businessman that would force immigrants from Muslim countries to register on a database.

Mr Kobach, who helped devise tough immigration laws in a number of US states and claims to have participated in regular conference calls with Mr Trump’s immigration advisers, also said the Trump administration could push ahead rapidly on construction of a US-Mexico border wall without seeking immediate congressional approval.

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The Muslim registration scheme, which would reportedly see Muslims given a form of identification that notes their religion, reflects policies Mr Trump put forward during his campaign to introduce “extreme vetting” of Muslims through tougher security measures.

Such a programme would echo a registration system created under Mr Bush’s presidency, which Mr Kobach also helped design, and which required thousands of Arab and Muslim visitors and temporary US residents to register with the state, but was abandoned in 2011 after it was criticised for unfairly targeting immigrants from Muslim-majority nations.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-muslim-registry-immigrants-policy-kris-bobach-reinstate-wall-a7420296.html

[spanone]

1. what other religions are they going to track? who's next?

[tenderfoot]

6. Jews. One thing that shocked me, was the high level of anti-semitism unleashed since the election.

Mind-blowing in fact. WTF???

[workinclasszero]

9. Is anyone foolish enough to think that fuhrerdrumpf will stop at muslims?

Its only the beginning friends...see you in the concentration camps.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. I'm sure the ACLU and others are ready to pounce.

[muntrv]

3. How long before colored people have to register?

[Solly Mack]

4. K&R

[WilliamPlanke]

5. Let's all wear a felt crescent moon lapel badge

I think we need to be Muslims if that's what it takes to protect our law abiding brothers and sisters.

[Kber]

8. Yes.

[Kber]

7. So where do we all sign up?

[Baitball Blogger]

10. The Muslims might take a page out of Black American Civil Rights strategy.

They need a league of lawyers that can sympathize with their cause.

[Grey Lemercier]

11. I do not want to ever hear anyone say they think that 1933 Germany can never happen again

[Initech]

12. It can't happen here. It can't happen here. It can't happen here.

[LAS14]

13. Well this would sure shine a light on the Supreme Court.

Can't even imagine a cogent argument in support of this.

And am still interested to see which, if any, Repubs just can't stay on the train without an Obama veto to shield them from the consequences.