Religious preference written into policy produces public and media backlash.

Evidence

The Presidential Order also stipulated that religious minorities in these countries would receive special refugee priority – which essentially permitted refugee status for non-Muslim (i.e., Christian) residents from the seven countries. A result of the travel ban was a large public and media outcry that thrust Muslims once more into a media spotlight in the United States and highlighted the divisiveness of American politics in the media (Rosenberg, 2017). — Emily Greene-Colozzi, Amy Adamczyk, and Senahan Kiyal Keles, Differences in Religious Framing of…, 16

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Supports the complaints-about-immodesty article’s thesis that moral/religious policing is really identity and political signaling, here inverted into state policy rather than dress.