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The registry was already there under Obama:

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theatlantic.com/amp/article...

Also, it would be silly to assume that we didn't have a database of "country from" for immigrants or visitors. "Muslim" is not a country, it's a religion, so you'd need some serious behavior profiling for that -- probably FB/Google are ones you should be after. (Disclaimer: am immigrant, am minority.)

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CBP/ICE already collects retinal scans and fingerprints of people with visas from many countries. Plus there's the FBI face recognition database.

While that is true they also collect prinzs from visa-waiver countries.

However, no religion attribution there.

> CBP/ICE already collects retinal scans and fingerprints of people with visas from many countries. Plus there's the FBI face recognition database.

Permanent residents too (no retinal scan but digital fingerprints and photo every time you pass through immigration at an airport).

Please post direct links to the article rather than aggregators like google amp. Thanks!

AMP is not an aggregator, it's a opt-in program to speed up pages. Personally, I prefer when someone posts an AMP link, because it is the exact same page and content but loads substantially faster. In this case, the AMP page took me 4.95 seconds to load while the non-AMP link took 10.73 seconds. Again, AMP is an opt-in program implemented by the website owner, is controlled by the site owner, and of course provides the same ad revenue for the site owner.

If amp were not an aggregator the URL would not point at amp.google.com.

I'm well aware of amp's purpose, function, intent, implementation, and effect. I strongly prefer not to have third parties mediating and obfuscating my browsing.

So please use direct urls rather than 3rd Party aggregators. Thanks.

I dislike the amp links as they obscure the ultimate destination in a manner similar to (though not quite as completely) as URL shorteners. That said, aggregator is not the correct term to use here. Proxy may be closer.

> so you'd need some serious behavior profiling for that

Name and country of origin goes a long way towards determining it

Of course it's not 100% correct, but should be enough to give a pointer

People could lie about their religion, too.

And convert, like Dave Chappelle (to Muslim) or Trump's daughter (to Judaism)

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