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Ilya Somin

Additional Testimony Against the Proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act"

I recently submitted additional written testimony for the US House of Representatives Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government. It is a supplement to my original written and oral testimony against the "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would bar virtually all immigration by Muslims, and require deportation of non-citizen Muslims currently in the United States.

My initial testimony explained why the proposed law violates the Free Exercise and Free Speech clauses of the First Amendment, and why - if enacted and upheld by the courts - it would set a dangerous precedent threatening religious liberty for a variety of groups, cause great harm to many thousands of innocent people, and damage US national security by giving a propaganda victory to radical Islamist terrorists. The other witnesses' written testimony is available here.

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