Renewed support for Muslim registry called ‘abhorrent’

A surrogate of President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday invoked Japanese internment camps as precedent for creating a registry for Muslim immigrants. This comes less than a week after the Kansas secretary of state told Reuters that Trump’s team might reprise a post-Sept. 11 national registry of immigrants from countries regarded as havens for “extremist activity.”
Such conversations in the president-elect’s circles have raised new concerns about civil rights among advoca