India’s CAA citizenship law restricted Muslim immigrants from neighboring countries

Evidence

New Delhi was on fire. Donald Trump’s visit to the seat of Indian government on February 24, 2020, set its streets ablaze minutes after he spoke. With his patented grin, Trump took center stage in the massive cricket stadium with his populist partner, Narendra Modi, standing alongside him. Modi blazed the ideological pathway for the enactment of India’s own “Muslim Ban”—which immediately restricted Muslim immigrants from bordering Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan from becoming Indian citizens, but had far broader implications. Like Trump’s travel ban, the CAA marked the apex of an Islamophobic vision that was rapidly becoming reality in India. But as forthcoming events within India and Kashmir would illustrate, that apex was only temporary. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 471

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the guiding question of states learning Islamophobic techniques from one another — India mirroring the US travel ban. — connects to: Hindutva defines Indian citizenship by religion-of-origin within sacred territory — Nadim N. Rouhana and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, When Politics Are Sacralized:…, 1158
• SEED: Angle: comparing the mechanics of the CAA and the US travel ban as parallel citizenship-restriction architectures.