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Senator Patty Murray, Dems, Introduce Bill to Block Muslim Immigrant RegistrySenator Patty Murray, Dems, Introduce Bill to Block Muslim Immigrant Registry
Washington, DC,
January 6, 2017
Yep, this is what it's come to: Washington State's Senator Patty Murray and a coalition of other Senate Democrats have introduced a bill to block the creation of a federal registry based on religion, ethnicity, race, age, gender, national origin, nationality, or citizenship. The "Protect American Families Act" would block draconian actions from the president-elect should Trump's transition team make good on their proposal to register and monitor immigrants from Muslim-majority countries. Washington State's Rep. Suzan Delbene introduced similar legislation in the House not long after a spokesman for a Trump super PAC suggested that Japanese internment camps were a "precedent" for what the Trump administration could propose for Muslim immigrants. |