Homeland Security Ends Registration

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WASHINGTON -- The Department of Homeland Security is ending a program begun after the Sept. 11 terror attacks that required tens of thousands of mostly Middle Eastern men and boys to register with the government while in the United States, officials said Monday.

Asa Hutchinson, the undersecretary for border and transportation security, said the department would focus more on individuals instead of "broad categories" of people. He said the program that required the foreigners to reregister after 30 days or a year continuously in the United States could be used again if there was another terrorist attack linked to a foreign country.

Hutchinson said the decision to "terminate" the program, which administration officials had hinted at last week, was not influenced by the harsh criticism by advocacy groups for people targeted and civil rights organizations.

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1. Or so they claim.

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