(CNS) As the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) looks towards a Biden presidency, its wish list includes the scrapping not only of President Trump’s travel bans, but also of legislation, signed into law by President Obama in 2015, which created the basis for visa restrictions on visitors from seven Muslim-majority “countries of [terrorism] concern.”
All seven of the countries subsequently identified by the Obama Department of Homeland Security under that legislation would later feature in various iterations of Trump’s travel executive orders.
Looking back even further, CAIR also hopes a Biden administration will target an FBI-administered watchlist of “known or suspected terrorists,” first put into place by the George W. Bush administration after 9/11. A federal judge ruled last year that the list violates the constitutional rights of Americans whose names appear on it.
