Citizenship Amendment Act (2019)
India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 is a law that provides a path to citizenship for non-Muslim religious minorities from neighboring countries while excluding Muslims, leading to criticism that it functions as a de facto religious and citizenship ban analogous to the US Muslim travel ban.
Claims that use this term
- India’s Citizenship Amendment Act of 2019 exceeded Trump’s Muslim Ban in restrictiveness
- India’s Citizenship Amendment Act functioned as its own Muslim travel and citizenship ban
- India’s Citizenship Amendment Act exceeded Trump’s travel ban in severity.
- India’s Citizenship Amendment Act mirrors the US Muslim Ban’s restricted logic