Pascrell Backs No Ban Act

House legislation will put a halt on Trump’s discrimination against immigrants

WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ-09) today voted in support of H.R. 2214, the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants, or NO BAN Act, legislation to push back on the Trump administration’s anti-immigration crusade. The legislation was approved by the House of Representatives 233-183.

“Donald Trump’s closing the golden door of the United States has rendered America a pariah state and done nothing to make us safer,” said Rep. Pascrell, a cosponsor of the NO BAN Act. “This legislation will revoke the Muslim Ban, limit Trump’s power to block immigrants from entering our shores and prohibit the use of bigotry and discrimination for immigration policymaking. The Statue of Liberty promised generations of immigrants that our land embraces ‘your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.’ The overturning of Trump’s hateful agenda will give meaning to those words once more.”

Rep. Pascrell has strongly opposed Trump’s so-called Muslim ban since the day it was announced and has been one of Congress’s biggest opponents of Trump’s poisonous immigration agenda. Pascrell is also a leader in Congress in fighting back against the administration’s hostility to refugees, leading his colleagues in condemnation of the Trump government’s vicious policies.

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