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By Tanya Weinberg, South Florida Sun-Sentinel Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Dec. 2--The Department of Homeland Security today will suspend a controversial program that required tens of thousands of Arab and Muslim men to register at immigration offices.
The program was launched after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, amid concerns that immigration officials did little to keep track of millions of foreigners entering the country each year. Men and boys from 24 predominantly Muslim countries and North Korea, though they were already in the United States, were required to report for photographs, fingerprints and interviews. They were required to repeat the process every year.
This "call-in" registration program sparked outrage among civil libertarians and Muslim …
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