Christina Jedra
The News Journal
Naveed Baqir remembers the feeling of being on a Muslim registry.
When he arrived from Pakistan with a student visa in 2003, he recalled an immigration official scribbling a number on his passport.
“My life changed for the next 10 years,” he said.
In nearly a decade, the program Baqir became a part of – the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System – produced no known terrorism-related convictions, according to the Rights Working Group and Penn State Law. But President-elect Donald J. Trump may revive a version of that program and introduce new measures that have Delaware Muslims worried about the next four years.
“One of the scary things is we’re just not sure what could happen,” said Ryan Houldin, a staff attorney for the Philadelphia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
