Liberals warn tech giants away from Muslim registry

The possibility is one of Trump’s “most chilling proposals,” the groups, who claim to represent 35 million Americans, wrote to companies like Google, Facebook and IBM Tuesday.

So far, the response has been meager. Only Twitter responded that it wouldn’t help with the registry. Microsoft said it would not engage in hypotheticals, and the rest have yet to answer.

“Within just two weeks of the election, a member of the Trump transition team was photographed carrying a document entitled ‘Plan for First 365 Days,’ which listed an updated registration program as one of his top priorities,” the letters state.

Led by Democracy for America, Creedo and MoveOn.org, the groups join many Democrats who worry Trump could resurrect a controversial post-Sept. 11 program that would make such a registry possible.

“Under the guise of preserving national security … proponents claimed the program was necessary,” the tech letters continue. “However, not a single person on the registry was convicted of a terrorism-related crime. “In reality” it “profiled Muslims, subjected many of them to detention and deportation, and damaged their communities.”

The letters were also sent to Apple, consulting giant Booz Allen Hamilton, IT firm CGI, Microsoft, research management society SRA International and Twitter.

The letters follow up on queries from the online news magazine The Intercept, which in November asked all the companies: “[I]f solicited by the Trump administration, [would your company] sell any goods, services, information, or consulting of any kind to help facilitate the creation of a national Muslim registry, a project which has been floated tentatively by the president-elect’s transition team?”

The same groups on Monday marched from the Justice Department to the White House demanding Obama scrap the legal framework underpinning the suspended 2001 program.