The Obama administration has moved to shut down the Department of Homeland Security's Muslim national registry program, a vestige of post-9/11 policy that's been sitting on the books since 2002 but unused in the past five years. It's the same program that President-elect Donald Trump and his team have indicated they'd like to revive.
The action, taken Thursday, follows Trump's comments in response to the Monday attack on a Christmas market in Berlin, which the Islamic State group claimed to have inspired. Asked whether he still planned to impose a temporary ban on Muslim immigrants entering the United States and establish a registry for Muslims (as he said on the campaign trail), Trump replied, "You know my plans."
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