Tom Cotton HITS BACK against media biased headlines about Trump creating a “Muslim registry”

by The Right Scoop

I’ve been seeing headlines about a so-called ‘Muslim registry’ since yesterday, but everytime I read the articles I see nothing about a ‘Muslim registry’ and what I do see doesn’t seem controversial at all.

What the media is doing is trying to make people think, via headlines that they know many people will only read, is that Trump is going to create some kind of tracking system for all Muslims in America. But that’s not even close to what this is, and this morning Tom Cotton pushed back on it as well:

Here’s the tweet and story Cotton was referring to from Maggie Haberman at the NY Times:

When you read the article you see that it’s exactly what Cotton says it is:

To implement Trump’s call for “extreme vetting” of some Muslim immigrants, Kobach said the immigration policy group could recommend the reinstatement of a national registry of immigrants and visitors who enter the United States on visas from countries where extremist organizations are active.

What is controversial about this? The article goes on to explain how this is basically the same system we had under Bush that Obama abandoned in 2011:

Kobach helped design the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, while serving in Republican President George W. Bush’s Department of Justice after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States by al Qaeda militants.

Under NSEERS, people from countries deemed “higher risk” were required to undergo interrogations and fingerprinting on entering the United States. Some non-citizen male U.S. residents over the age of 16 from countries with active militant threats were required to register in person at government offices and periodically check in.

NSEERS was abandoned in 2011 after it was deemed redundant by the Department of Homeland Security and criticized by civil rights groups for unfairly targeting immigrants from Muslim- majority nations.

Of course Obama abandoned a program that was designed to protect this nation from Islamic terrorism. He won’t even call it Islamic terrorism. Ugh.

Just as with the transition process, the media is unfairly attacking the new president for policies he isn’t even creating and I’m glad Cotton is pointing this out.


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