The bottom line is that NSEERS is a failed and unfair program. It made no contribution to national security. It made more difficult needed cooperation between immigrant communities and law enforcement agents and gave the U.S. a black eye in the Arab and Muslim worlds, undercutting our public diplomacy efforts. Polling shows that our treatment of Arab and Muslim immigrants has, in some Middle East countries, eclipsed Iraq and Palestine as a major source of negative feelings about America.

It's time to correct the problem.

That's why a coalition of Arab-American, Muslim-American and immigrant rights groups are calling on DHS to terminate NSEERS, terminate removal proceedings against those who complied with the program's registration requirement, and terminate proceedings against those whose only violation is their failure to have registered.