Back in May, the U.S. Department of State asked for and received permission to implement a temporary measure to collect vast amounts of information from certain individuals applying for a U.S. visa. Otherwise known as "extreme vetting", the State Department now wants to make this permanent.

Given the Trump Administration's vitriolic attacks on immigrants and Muslims, we cannot trust that "extreme vetting" will be anything more than a backdoor Muslim Ban.

We don't have to take this sitting down. 

We must resist this discriminatory policy or risk returning to those dark days in our history when similar discrimination against Japanese Americans was officially sanctioned. 

Would you be able to recall your last 15 years of travel history? Could you provide five years of social media activity? 

If this becomes permanent, the unfettered discretion to scrutinize the social media activity and travel history of all visa applicants will lead to increased racial profiling and will ensnare U.S. citizens and residents mentioned in social media posts, chilling their speech and making them potential targets of government surveillance.

Join us in telling the State Department that these "extreme vetting" procedures are nothing more than a backdoor Muslim Ban. Stand up for the Muslim community by rejecting this horrible policy. 

The deadline is October 2nd for comments.