ACTION ALERT: Sign the No Ban Act Petition!

March 10, 2020 CAIR-Chicago Communications

Over three years ago, President Trump initiated a Muslim Ban targeting immigrants from seven predominantly Muslim countries based on their religion or religious heritage. In February, Trump expanded this ban to include six additional countries, four of which are African countries, bringing the total to 13 banned countries. The Muslim Ban has a devastating impact on everyday Americans. It cruelly separates tens of thousands of American families, fuels anti-Muslim and racist violence, hurts our economy, and violates our country’s core principles of religious freedom and equal treatment under the law. There is no evidence that banning babies and grandmothers makes us safer. Congress has the power to stop this injustice once and for all. The NO BAN Act (H.R. 2214) will end Trump’s Muslim Ban and and ensure that no future president can abuse their authority and ban people for discriminatory purposes. The bill has over 110 Co-Sponsors in the House and is supported by over 400 civil rights, faith, national security, and community groups. And with Congress voting on the NO BAN Act very soon, this important legislation must pass. Sign now if you agree that no American family should be torn apart because of Trump’s bigotry.

📣 American families are suffering because of the ban. Because of the expansion, millions of Americans are separated from their family—spouses, infant children, or elderly parents are trapped overseas. Many of these families have spent countless hours and resources traveling abroad, contacting embassies, filling out paperwork and waiting for answers.

📣 Banning babies and grandmothers serves no national security purpose. The administration has failed to show how banning babies and grandmothers makes us safer. Over 50 former senior national security officials who have served in Republican and Democratic administrations have said there is no national security justification for the ban. Under the expanded ban, their national security justifications are even more illusory: the administration will allow visitors (tourists, students, and scholars) from Nigeria, Eritrea, Myanmar, and Kyrgystan, but bans immigrants (spouses, children and parents typically seeking to be reunited with family members), even though screening of visitors is typically less rigorous than screening those seeking to immigrate.

📣 The ban is about discrimination. Pure and simple. The ban is part of Trump’s white nationalist agenda and is yet more evidence that the goal of his administration is to use our immigration laws to keep out people of color. This is a Muslim Ban and a ban on people of color. He has repeatedly denigrated people from the banned countries, calling them “sh*tholes” and said that Nigerians live in “huts.” This is in addition to his long-use of hostile and denigrating language to describe Black people and where they live, as well as Muslims. The true purpose of this policy is to stoke racial and religious bigotry for political gain -- and nothing more.

📣 Congress must pass the NO BAN Act. There is a solution. Congress needs to rein this in immediately by passing the NO BAN Act (H.R. 2214/S.1123 - Chu/Coons). The NO BAN Act will end the Muslim Ban and and ensure that no president will ever again be able to abuse their authority and ban people for discriminatory purposes without accountability. Speaker Pelosi recently pledged to move the NO BAN Act through the House.