Widespread opposition to the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and plans for a proposed National Register of Citizens (NRC) is reason enough not to implement them. The government would do well to withdraw the CAA and drop the idea of an NRC.
Neither can work without popular support and if they are imposed in the manner now being considered, we risk throwing the entire country into a long and distressing period of turmoil. To thrust them on states would not work and would also weaken the very spirit of federalism on which the country’s governance is based.
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