Amnesty
International USA Preps for Protests Against Trump Anti-Terror Policies
by Lee Stranahan 24 Nov 2016
Naureen Shah, the Director of Amnesty
International USA’s Security & Human
Rights Program, pledged that her group plans to organize protests
against Donald Trump’s planned immigration and refugee
programs.
In a Daily
Beast article about the potential for the Trump administration
to implement tough anti-terrorism measures including stopping the flow of Syrian
refugees, “extreme vetting questions,” and a plan that “all aliens from
high-risk areas are tracked,” Amnesty International USA’s Naureen Shah said,
“We will create the public pressure and international community pressure to
make these kinds of proposals untenable.”
The potential plans were revealed by possible head of
Department of Homeland Security Kris Kobach. As the Topeka
Capital-Journal reported:
A written plan for the Department of Homeland Security
brought by Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach into his meeting with
President-elect Donald Trump spells out a desire to question “high-risk”
immigrants over support for Sharia law and the U.S. Constitution.
Kobach, an early Trump supporter, met with the
president-elect on Sunday and has been mentioned as a potential pick for a
position within the administration. Some speculation has centered on the
secretary of Homeland Security, and Kobach’s plan appears to lend credence to
that possibility.
Although Kobach revealed the information accidentally,
the plan coincides with the already stated intentions and proposals made by
candidate Donald Trump. As Time reported, “The
details of the document align with many of the promises Trump made on the
campaign trail, which is little surprise given Kobach’s connection to the
campaign and his stance on immigration.”
In calling for potential protests, Amnesty International
USA’s Shah referred to the implementation of the National Security Entry-Exit
Registration System – or NSEERS – the extreme vetting, and the shutdown of the
refugee program as an attempt to “govern based on bigotry and fear-mongering
about the Muslim other.”
In his role in the George W. Bush Department of Justice,
Kobach was one of the chief architects of NSEERS.
Critics assailed the NSEERS program for focusing on Muslims.
In 2011, President Obama effectively suspended the program by removing all 25
countries from its list.
CNN
reports that on Wednesday, a group of pro-Muslim and institutional
leftist groups are calling on President Obama to dismantle NSEERS completely
before leaving office:
Nearly 200 organizations concerned that President-elect
Donald Trump may revive the National Security Exit-Entry Registration System,
known as NSEERS, once used to register and track mostly Arabs and Muslims, are
asking President Barack Obama to abolish the program before he leaves office.
In a letter delivered to the Obama administration on
Monday, the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, or ADC, blasted NSEERS
for being “ineffective as a counterterrorism tool” and causing “tremendous
harm” to immigrant communities. The letter was signed by 197 other
organizations, including the National Council of La Raza, the Anti-Defamation
League, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Constitutional Rights.
The NSEERS program is “a system for registering certain
non-citizens within the United States” and has two separate components:
port-of-entry registration and domestic registration. Port-of-entry registration
is required for nationals of Iran, Iraq, Libya, Sudan, and Syria in addition to
any other non-citizen, non-permanent residents determined in advance.
The domestic registration required that “non-citizens who
were in the United States prior to September 10, 2002”—specifically “males over
the age of sixteen who entered the United States legally on particular types of
visa (primarily student, work, and tourist) from certain countries”—register in
person.
Amnesty International USA
Amnesty
International USA is an affiliate of Amnesty
International.
Note: Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked Amnesty
International, and the Human Rights
Watch.
Open
Society Foundations was a funder for the Amnesty International, the Human
Rights Watch, and the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU).
George
Soros is the founder & chairman for the Open Society Foundations, a director emeritus for Refugees International, was the
chairman for the Foundation to Promote
Open Society, and a benefactor at the Human
Rights Watch.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Amnesty International, the Human
Rights Watch, the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU), the Economic
Policy Institute, the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Aryeh
Neier was the president of the Open
Society Foundations, a vice chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, an executive director for the Human Rights Watch, and an executive
director for the American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU).
Raul Yzaguirre
was a director at the Economic Policy
Institute, and the president & CEO for the National Council of La Raza.
Rockefeller
Foundation was a funder for the National
Council of La Raza, and the Aspen
Institute (think tank), and the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Jonathan Greenblatt
was a fellow at the Aspen Institute
(think tank), a director at the Office
of Social Innovation and Civic Participation, and is a director & CEO
for the Anti-Defamation League.
Office
of Social Innovation and Civic Participation is a White House office for
the Barack Obama administration.
Sonal
Shah was a director at the Office of
Social Innovation and Civic Participation, a fellow at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and the head
of global development for Google.org.
Arunava Majumdar
is a director, energy initiatives for Google.org,
and was a professor at the University of
California, Berkeley.
University
of California, Berkeley is a University
of California campus.
Richard C. Blum is
a regent at the University of California,
a governing council member of the Wilderness
Society, an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and married to Senator Dianne Feinstein.
Bullitt
Foundation was a funder for the Wilderness
Society.
Frank
Greer is a trustee at the Bullitt
Foundation, and was a co-founder for Amnesty
International USA.
Amnesty
International USA is an affiliate of Amnesty
International.
Syrian
Electronic Army reportedly hacked Amnesty
International, and the Human Rights
Watch.
Bashar al-Assad
is supporting the Syrian Electronic Army
a hacker group, the president of Syria,
and permitted the rise of the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS, Muslims) in Syria.
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