"President-elect Trump and his immigration advisers have taken an illegal and long-ago abandoned post-9/11 program, the National Security Entry-Exit System, and now threaten to reignite it," said ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project director Cecillia Wang in a statement. "Let's be clear: Trump is talking about a federal dragnet that targets people for registration, surveillance, interrogation, or detention because of their religion. Such a dragnet would be unconstitutional."
John Yoo's defense of 2006 detainee measures provides a chilling reminder that a decade of denial occasioned the rise of a truly fascist regime.
