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Bill Passed in US House to Permanently Prevent another ‘Muslim Ban’

A bill has been passed by the US House of Representatives limiting the ability of any United States president to impose a travel ban based on religion.

Informally known as the NO BAN Act, the bill is a response to former President Donald Trump’s controversial “Muslim ban”, which had prevented travel to the US from several Muslim-majority countries. Trump had issued the ban in 2017 shortly after taking office. Struck down twice by US courts before having been reintroduced as a ‘national security measure’ it was eventually upheld by the US Supreme Court in 2018. At the outset the ban applied to travel to the US from Syria, Iran, Yemen, Somalia, and Libya, North Korea and Venezuela. Then, in 2020, the bill was expanded to include Myanmar, Eritrea, Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Sudan and Tanzania. Al Jazeera reports that it ‘divided families, denied people access to healthcare, and prevented friends and relatives from attending weddings, funerals and graduations’.

The new bill, while having been approved by a majority vote in the House on Wednesday, has yet to be passed in the US Senate to become law.

Meanwhile, Madihha Ahussain, counsel to a US civil rights group, Muslim Advocates, said “The Muslim ban tore families apart, put lives on hold for years and labelled Muslims, Africans and other targeted people as threatening outsiders.” She said that it must be ensured that no president could ever again enact bigoted bans like the Muslim Ban. Further,  Marielena Hincapié, executive director of the National Immigration  Law Center, said that the Muslim and African Bans had been an abuse of executive power to discriminate against and harm people based on their origin or religion. She added, “The NO BAN Act will make sure that no president can weaponize this dangerously overbroad power again.”

Al Jazeera reports that President Joe Biden had reversed Trump’s travel ban on his first day in office, January 20. Nevertheless, US legislators said taking legislative action was important.

Umm Muhammed Umar

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