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We Already Have a Muslim Registry. It's Called Facebook

Nextgov: On several occasions during his campaign, President-elect Donald Trump alluded to the idea of building a database of Muslims in the U.S. His position has veered between tracking refugees (nearly half of those admitted to the U.S. this year are Muslim, according to the Pew Research Center) to considering proposals to register America’s own Muslim citizens. He has always been cryptic about the details. But on Dec. 21, Trump reaffirmed his intention to do something when asked, after terrorist attacks in Germany and Turkey, if he planned to create a registry.

“You’ve known my plans all along,” he told reporters.

Meanwhile, Trump’s calls for “deportation force” have on their own sparked fears of persecution of America’s religious and racial minorities, if not outright fascism—a fear stoked by a member of Trump’s own camp who compared the registry (favorably) with the World War II internment of Japanese-Americans.

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