Day 29. Can’t escape the meaning of today. 75 years ago the Japanese military attacked to US Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

Events were set in motion. The United States entered World War II.

Beyond that, the US military and Executive made a terrible decision to imprison all people of Japanese origin living on the west coast of the United States, without due process of law. Most of them stayed imprisoned for the duration of the war.

Then 14 years ago, the Department of Justice under President Bush set up the National Security Entry-Exit Registry System (NSEERS). With a stated intent of preventing terrorist attacks, NSEERS included a system that registered males who entered the United States, mostly from majority-Muslim countries.

It cost us more than $10 million.

The data was unreliable.

13,000 people were deported without due process.

Not a single terrorism conviction was secured.

In 2011 the program was decommissioned, but not dismantled. Last week 51 members of Congress wrote to President Obama asking him to finish the job.

Today I’m joining them. I’m calling the White House comment line at 202-456-1111. I will ask the President to rescind the regulatory framework behind NSEERS so that it can’t be used to repeat the mistake of racial profiling we made 75 years ago.

Will you join me?