US 'Muslim ban' Set to End
Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged to end Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban on his first day in office.
The presumptive Democratic nominee also promised to work with Congress to pass stalled hate crimes legislation.
Biden said the 2017 travel restrictions were “the opening barrage in what has been nearly four years of constant pressure, insults and attacks” against racial and religious minorities by President Trump.
Former Vice President Joe Biden pledged that if he is elected president, he will end President Donald Trump’s so-called Muslim travel ban on his first day in office.
“I will end the Muslim ban on day one. Day one. And I will work with Congress to pass hate crimes legislation like the Jabara-Heyer No Hate Act and the End Racial and Religious Profiling Act,” Biden said to attendees of the Million Muslim Votes Summit, an online conference hosted by Emgage Action, the nation’s largest Muslim-American political group.
In 2017, the U.S. government banned individuals from certain predominately Muslim countries from entering the United States.
One of Trump’s first actions as president in 2017 was to suspend entry to the United States of travelers from seven majority Muslim nations: Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen, for 90 days. The executive order created chaos at airports around the world, and lawsuits against the ban quickly followed.
After federal judges barred the first ban’s implementation, Trump issued a second ban that was also quickly tied up in federal courts.
A third version of the ban was issued by the White House in the fall of 2017, and this one applied to six majority Muslim countries and two non-majority Muslim countries. The following year, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the third ban, which remains in place today.