Rudy Giuliani Fully Supports Trump’s Plan To Tag American Muslims (VIDEO)

GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump wants to ban all Muslims from entering the U.S. He says it would be a temporary ban, but we don’t really know exactly what he would do. He has suggested that he would like to see Muslims being forced to wear special armbands. Muslims will be tagged just like the Jewish people were tagged during World War II.

Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani is joining in on the crazy with The Donald. He wants Muslims to be electronically tagged and tracked. At least Giuliani is focusing on the Muslims on the terror watch list, though, and not every single Muslim in the U.S.

He said on Wednesday that tagging Muslims would be an “excellent idea.”

“I would think that’s an excellent idea. If you’re on the terror watch list, I should you know you’re on the terror watch list. You’re on there for a reason.”

Giuliani also said:

“Maybe the list should be more accurate. Maybe we should make the procedures for people to complain if they are erroneously there easier. I would like the opportunity to take a look at what percentage is faulty. If the percentage is very high, like 20 percent, 30 percent, then I wouldn’t do it until the percentage was down to something like 1 or 2 percent. If the percentage is more like 1 or 2 percent, then I would do it. But I do think it’s something to consider.”

The problem with this, besides the obvious, is that anyone who raises “reasonable suspicion” could end up the terrorism watchlist Your social media posts could potentially land you on the list, for example, if you appear to be an Islamist or a supporter of “radical Islam.” Someone could just say that they suspect you, and you could get on that list. Some people get on the list by knowing someone who is on the list.

The system is grossly flawed. From HuffPo:

There are a staggering 680,000 people ― 280,000 of whom, by the government’s own admission, have “no recognized terrorist group affiliation” ― on the U.S. terror watchlist. Of that tally, anywhere from 21,000 to 40,000 are American citizens or legal residents. 

“People can be listed as ‘suspected’ terrorists not because of any wrongdoing but because of unwitting associations with someone else the government deems suspect,” wrote ACLU staff attorney Hugh Handeyside in 2014. 

Often people end up on the list for having a name similar to another person’s.

And American Muslims are disproportionately represented on the list. It’s no coincidence that Dearborn, Michigan ― which has the highest concentration of Arab Americans in the U.S. ― has the second highest number of watch-listed individuals in the U.S., despite having a population of under 100,000 people. 

Being on the watch list has huge consequences. You will be blocked from flying in or out of the country, denied immigration visas, and can even be detained and questioned by authorities. Furthermore, if you are wrongfully put on the list, it’s difficult to get your name removed.

https://youtu.be/0YzMhvzda-Q

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