US House Democrats pass what could be first ‘Muslim civil rights bill’
The US House of Representatives on Wednesday passed legislation that would repeal the Trump administration’s controversial ‘anti-Muslim’ travel ban, in what has been called the first Muslim civil rights bill in US history. The bill would outright prohibit any future president from using religious discrimination as grounds for restricting immigration. Dubbed the NO BAN Act – short for National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants – it was introduced in April 2019 […]
