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Homeland ends registration program aimed at Muslims.(The Orlando Sentinel)
Byline: Kelly Brewington
The federal government on Tuesday will end a controversial program that required more than 80,000 men from predominantly Muslim countries to be fingerprinted, questioned and photographed by immigration officials.
Since the start of the program in November 2002, 83,519 men have registered with local immigration offices and 13,799 have been named in deportation proceedings.
None, however, has been charged with terrorist activity, prompting loud protests from immigrant advocates and civil rights groups.
A spokesman at the Department of Homeland Security said Monday the termination of the program was not a response to the backlash.
"This is something we have been looking at for some time," said Bill Strassberger, a department spokesman. "We've asked if this is the most effective use of our resources. We decided when registering people domestically, it would be better to use the information we received on individuals rather than targeting specific broad groups or categories of people."
Recently, the government discussed reevaluating the program, as many men began to prepare for the annual re-registration.
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