Donald Trump's Homeland Security Candidate Reveals Plans In Photoshoot

Donald Trump continued meeting with potential members of his cabinet Monday at his Bedminster, New Jersey, golf club. One of those was Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, a hardline conservative reportedly in the running for Homeland Security secretary.

Like any good job interviewee, Kobach came with a plan, specifically for his first 365 days in office. How do we know this?

When he posed for a photo with Trump in front of the golf course Monday, he forgot to cover up parts of the first page of his plan. Photographers outside the golf course captured pictures of the two men. Then, internet sleuths went to work.

(Click on the tweet below to see bigger versions of the photos.)

Here's what the top of that first page says, under the subhead "1. Bar the Entry of Potential Terrorists":

1. Update and reintroduce the NSEERS screening and tracking system (National Security Entry-Exit Registration System) that was in place from 2002-2005. All aliens from high-risk areas are tracked.

2. Add extreme vetting questions for high-risk aliens: question them regarding support for Sharia law, jihad, equality of men and women, the United States Constitution.

3. Reduce intake of Syrian refugees to zero, using authority under the 1980 Refugee Act.

Kobach is very familiar with bullet point number one.

In 2002, shortly after the September 11 terrorist attacks, Kobach helped establish the aforementioned NSEERS while he worked via a White House Fellowship for then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.

The system created a registry for certain non-citizens who came from five Middle Eastern countries. It's considered a pre-cursor to the Muslim registry that was floated by Trump during the presidential campaign.

The result? It registered more than 80,000 people and deported more than 13,000 of them. It netted no arrests for terrorism, though. Registration stopped in 2003.

Patch has reached out to a Trump spokeswoman for comment and more information, and we'll let you know if we hear back.

Image via Gage Skidmore, Flickr, used under Creative Commons