Thousands of Muslims and activists in the United States will march on the White House in a final effort to convince outgoing President Barack Obama to permanently dismantle a discriminatory program that singled out Muslims and Arabs for surveillance, before Donald Trump enters office.
Several of the largest progressive and civil rights groups will be participating in Monday’s march. Organizers hope that the march will be the final nudge that persuades Obama to revoke the regulatory framework of the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS).
Obama has less than six weeks to rescind NSEERS, an openly discriminatory registry program that was introduced in the wake of September 11, 2001 terror attacks.
NSEERS was indefinitely suspended in 2011, but Trump mulled the possibility of reinstating the program during his presidential campaign in order to monitor the activities of Muslim immigrants.
The program was suspended by removing the…