The House passed legislation that would rescind President Trump's sweeping restrictions on admitting refugees, asylum-seekers and visitors from certain countries into the U.S.
The House passed legislation Wednesday that would rescind President Donald Trump's sweeping restrictions on admitting refugees, asylum-seekers and visitors from certain countries into the United States, a mostly party-line vote intended to serve as a rejection of Trump’s campaign-era call to ban Muslims from entering the United States.
The measure is a response to what they say is Trump's effort to ban Muslims from the country, a policy he embraced during his 2016 presidential campaign. Though he never instituted an outright ban, Trump imposed restrictions on a slew of Muslim-majority countries, describing them as security risks. Democrats said the effort was, in practice, an effort to implement Trump's proposed Muslim ban and cloak it in the pretense of a national security justification.
The proposal prohibits religious discrimination in immigration orders, and it limits the president, State Department and Department of Homeland Security from imposing new restrictions unless they're justified by a "compelling government interest" and the restrictions are crafted as narrowly as possible to support that interest. The law carves out an exception for restrictions if the State Department assesses that it is based on credible threats to the United States.
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