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Input: Washington (CNN) The Obama administration said Thursday it was ending a dormant program that once was used to track mostly Arab and Muslim men . 
  
 "The Department of Homeland Security is removing outdated regulations pertaining to the National Security Entry-Exit Registration Systems (NSEERS) program, with an immediate effective date," said Neema Hakim, a department spokesman. 
  
 The program was suspended in 2011. Hakim said the "intervening years have shown that NSEERS is not only obsolete, but that its use would divert limited personnel and resources from more effective measures." 
  
 President-elect Donald Trump has suggested instituting a program that would track Muslim immigrants to the United States. 
  
 Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway said on CNN's "New Day" Thursday that Trump would not pursue a ban on Muslim immigration to the US based only on religion. 
  
 "You're going back to over a year ago in what he said about the (Muslim) ban versus what he said later about it, when he made it much more specific and talked about countries where we know that they've got a higher propensity of training and exporting terrorists," she told CNN's Chris Cuomo after he prodded her to share more details of Trump's plan. 
  
 New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on Wednesday called on Obama to dismantle the NSEERS program. 
  
 In a letter addressed to Obama, Schneiderman wrote that NSEERS, created after the September 11, 2001, terror attacks, did not reduce terrorist activity and instead "undermined trust" in law enforcement and instilled fear in some communities. 
  
 "We can't risk giving President-elect Trump the tools to create an unconstitutional religious registry," Schneiderman said in a separate statement. 
  
 Schneiderman praised Obama's decision Thursday. 
  
 "This is a win for civil rights and for smart, effective law enforcement, as well as for the strong coalition of advocacy organizations and others who fought to dismantle this discriminatory tool," he said. "My office will continue do everything it can to protect the rights of all New Yorkers, and ensure equal justice under the law for all, regardless of religion or national origin." 
  
 New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio also hailed the program's end. 
  
 "The program was a failed counterterrorism tool, was highly discriminatory, and led to widespread fear and needless dislocation of families across the United States," he said in a statement. 
  
 NSEERS, sometimes called "Special Registration," was a program for registering and monitoring non-citizen visa holders -- such as students, workers and tourists -- that President George W. Bush's administration enacted a year after the 9/11 attacks. 
  
 The program affected males 16 or older from 25 countries. With the exception of North Korea, all the countries on the list were Arab or had majority Muslim populations. 
  
 Proponents of NSEERS said it was necessary to identify and capture terrorists who might enter the country on false pretenses or who were already living in the United States. 
  
 Critics said it disproportionately targeted Arabs and Muslims, caused widespread fear within those communities and needlessly punished immigrants. 
  
 The program targeted men "regardless of whether they were suspected or accused of any wrongdoing," Schneiderman's statement said. 
  
 By 2011, nearly a decade after the program was enacted, NSEERS had not resulted in a single terrorism conviction. The Department of Homeland Security determined in 2011 that the program was "redundant and did not provide any increase in security," Hakim said. 
  
 The Obama administration took all 25 countries off its list, but left its primary structure intact. 
  
 The ADC on Thursday issued a statement applauding the Obama administration's decision to end the dormant program and vowing to counter any similar programs that Trump may impose. 
  
 "The community cannot be at ease; the next administration has indicated that they will consider implementing similar programs," said Abed Ayoub, ADC legal and policy director. "We will work twice as hard to protect our community and ensure such programs do not come to fruition." ||||| (CNN) Donald Trump and his supporters have been all over the place about his plan for surveilling Muslims. The President-elect once advocated for a Muslim database. Then he walked it back. Then his spokesman said Trump never proposed such a thing. 
  
 Then a source familiar with the incoming administration told CNN there will be a database and it'll be similar to the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS). 
  
 NSEERS was a Bush-era program enacted shortly after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. It disproportionately targeted Arabs and Muslims and was a point of contention between rights groups and the federal government for nearly a decade. 
  
 It was also a mega failure -- both strategically and, critics say, ethically. 
  
 What is the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System? 
  
 NSEERS, sometimes referred to as "Special Registration," was a program for registering non-citizen visa holders -- such as students, workers and tourists -- that President George W. Bush's administration enacted on September 10, 2002. 
  
 The program had three parts. First, it required non-citizens to register when they entered the US -- a process that included fingerprinting, photo taking and interrogation. Second, it mandated that these people, as well as others already in the US, register and regularly check in with immigration officials. Third, it kept track of those leaving the country to make sure that temporary guests did not remain illegally. Violators were arrested, fined and even deported. 
  
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 Who did NSEERS affect? 
  
 Mostly Arabs and Muslims. 
  
 All males 16 years of age or older from 25 countries were forced to register. Although no religious groups were explicitly targeted, all but one was a Muslim-majority country. The countries included: Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Egypt, Eritrea, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates, Yemen. The sole exception: North Korea. 
  
 country of origin. Trump promised during his campaign to start a program that will register and track people from certain high-risk countries, such as Iran, Syria and Afghanistan. His newly named White House aide, Kellyanne Conway, said the same thing that it will focus more on 
  
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 What was the program's purpose? 
  
 US officials at the time believed the program was necessary to identify and capture terrorists who might enter the country on false pretenses or already be living among the population. 
  
 John Ashcroft said the September 11 attacks exposed "the vulnerabilities of our immigration system" and Then-Attorney Generalsaid the September 11 attacks exposed "the vulnerabilities of our immigration system" and made the case for NSEERS. 
  
 "In this new war, our enemy's platoons infiltrate our borders, quietly blending in with visiting tourists, students, and workers," Ashcroft said. "They move unnoticed through our cities, neighborhoods, and public spaces. They wear no uniforms. Their camouflage is not forest green, but rather it is the color of common street clothing. Their tactics rely on evading recognition at the border and escaping detection within the United States. Their terrorist mission is to defeat America, destroy our values and kill innocent people." 
  
 Trump has made similar arguments to ban and monitor Muslims, as well as oppose the US' resettlement of Syrian refugees. 
  
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 How is NSEERS any different from what Trump is proposing? 
  
 The President-elect has floated and walked back a number of controversial policies regarding Muslims, including a "temporary ban," a process of "extreme vetting" and even forcing all those living in the US to register with a national database. The flip-flops make it difficult to say for sure how his program would be different from NSEERS. 
  
 His campaign promises hinted at a more draconian system that targets a specific religion, bans an entire group and imposes registration on American citizens. However, his transition team says that's not the case. 
  
 A source who spoke to CNN said the program Trump is considering would register and track foreign visitors from high-risk countries, including but not limited to Muslims. The source did not specify which countries would be impacted, but said it would be a "moving target" given the diffuse terrorist threat. 
  
 When asked about a complete ban on Muslims, the source said "it's something we're prepared for, but it's unlikely," before adding "all options are on the table." 
  
 Trump spokesman Jason Miller denied that Muslims would be the target of a new program. 
  
 "President-elect Trump has never advocated for any registry or system that tracks individuals based on their religion, and to imply otherwise is completely false," Miller said. "The national registry of foreign visitors from countries with high terrorism activity that was in place during the Bush and Obama administrations gave intelligence and law enforcement communities additional tools to keep our country safe, but the President-elect plans on releasing his own vetting policies after he is sworn in." 
  
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 Assuming Trump brings back NSEERS, what will be the likely impact? 
  
 It would be pretty devastating for the Arab and Muslim communities. 
  
 monitored more than 80,000 men and boys, according to a deportation proceedings, the report added. The previous program registered and, according to a 2012 report by Penn State Law and Rights Working Group, a coalition of local, state and national rights organizations. More than 13,000 of those registrants were placed in, the report added. 
  
 Rights groups slammed NSEERS for targeting Arabs and Muslims, striking fear into those communities, confusing registrants with ambiguous and complex instructions that resulted in needless penalties, and even uprooting and tearing families apart. 
  
 "NSEERS targets only people from Arab and Muslim countries, along with North Korea, that is discrimination based on national origin. It is time to end the shame of NSEERS," Mary Rose Oakar, former president of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee said in 2007. 
  
 NSEERS faced a number of legal challenges from affected individuals and rights groups, who called for its repeal. However, none ever achieved much success. 
  
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 Okay, but it was pretty effective in stopping terrorists -- right? 
  
 Actually, no. It didn't result in a single terrorism conviction. 
  
 The American Civil Liberties Union told CNN this week that NSEERS "actually made genuine efforts at trying to combat terrorism more difficult by destroying relationships with immigrant communities and actually negatively impacting the ability of the federal government to cooperate with foreign governments in fighting terrorism." 
  
 ignored credible data from think tanks, including the The program alsofrom think tanks, including the New America Foundation , showing that most domestic terror attacks are carried out by US citizens. 
  
 suspended NSEERS by taking all 25 countries off its list. In December 2016, In 2011, nearly a decade after its creation, President Barack Obama's administrationby taking all 25 countries off its list. In December 2016, it finally ended it ||||| Photo 
  
 NEWTON, Iowa — Donald J. Trump, who earlier in the week said he was open to requiring Muslims in the United States to register in a database, said on Thursday night that he “would certainly implement that — absolutely.” 
  
 Mr. Trump was asked about the issue by an NBC News reporter and pressed on whether all Muslims in the country would be forced to register. “They have to be,” he said. “They have to be.’’ 
  
 When asked how a system of registering Muslims would be carried out — whether, for instance, mosques would be where people could register — Mr. Trump said: “Different places. You sign up at different places. But it’s all about management. Our country has no management.’’ 
  
 Asked later, as he signed autographs, how such a database would be different from Jews having to register in Nazi Germany, Mr. Trump repeatedly said, “You tell me,” until he stopped responding to the question. 
  
 Both Mr. Trump and Ben Carson, the top two Republican presidential candidates in most polls, have made sharply provocative remarks about Muslim refugees from Syria and Iraq, and have been criticized by Muslim groups in the United States. 
  
 On Thursday, Mr. Carson seemed to equate refugees’ seeking entrance to the United States to “a rabid dog running around your neighborhood.’’ Both Mr. Carson’s and Mr. Trump’s remarks came the day the House voted to severely restrict the flow of Syrian and Iraqi refugees into the United States, amid security concerns after the terrorist assaults in Paris. 
  
 Donald Trump’s Call for Muslim Registry Denounced by Democrats Donald J. Trump’s remarks took hours to penetrate over social media, but by Friday morning, Democrats were calling him out. Jeb Bush was one of the first Republican presidential candidates to respond, calling Mr. Trump’s words “just wrong.” 
  
 Donald Trump Steps Back From Calling for Muslim Registry Mr. Trump said the idea that Muslims in America should register with the federal government had come from a reporter. 
  
 Donald Trump Sets Off a Furor With Call to Register Muslims in the U.S. Mr. Trump drew back from his call for a mandatory registry of Muslims in the United States, capping a week where candidates discussed their approaches to terrorism. 
  
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Output:
Donald Trump has mused about a registry for Muslims from high-risk nations to Muslims in the US, but an Obama administration move places a bit of a roadblock in his way. The New York Times reports that the Department of Homeland Security is formally ending a post-9/11 program that targeted males 16 and older from Arab or mostly Muslim nations via interrogations, fingerprinting, and check-ins, and it's a program that's already been unused since 2011. "DHS ceased use of NSEERS more than five years ago, after it was determined the program was redundant, inefficient, and provided no increase in security," DHS spokesman Neema Hakim tells the Times. The DHS request will go on the books in the federal registry on Friday. The NSEERS program was deemed a counterterrorism necessity at the time it was created in 2002, including by GOPer Kris Kobach, who helped set up the Bush program and whose name was floated for head of Trump's DHS before Gen. John Kelly was picked. But critics said it unfairly targeted Arabs and Muslims, "regardless of whether they were suspected or accused of any wrongdoing," NYS Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement Wednesday, per CNN. CNN noted in November that the program didn't bring a single terrorism conviction. DHS officials point toward newer, more efficient initiatives that are "far better equipped to face the evolving landscape of international terrorism," says Hakim. (Who won't be helping to build a registry: these Silicon Valley workers.)