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Dear John,
Despite the efforts of NIAC and hundreds of Iranian Americans and allies, as well as our friends at the ACLU and Asian Americans Advancing Justice, the Senate adopted the Rounds amendment barring certain property purchases in the U.S. for Iranian, Chinese, Russian, and North Korean nationals.
This is bad news but rest assured – we are not backing down from the battle to block this and similar measures targeting our community's rights.
There are three important things to know about the path forward:
1.
Through
our
advocacy
we
secured
protections
for
Iranian
Americans
and
all
U.S.
citizens
and
green
card
holders
from
these
restrictions.
This
measure
is
much
narrower
than
some
of
the
proposals
from
states
like
Texas
and
Florida
–
but
it
is
still
unacceptable.
Watered
down
national-origin
discrimination
is
still
discrimination,
and
this
bill
still
opens
the
door
to
profiling
against
all
of
us
and
further
discriminatory
legislation
down
the
road.


2.
This
measure
has
passed
the
Senate
but
is
not
law
yet
and
we
will
continue
fighting.
The
House
and
Senate
must
negotiate
and
then
pass
a
final
version
of
the
Defense
bill,
and
we
are
now
turning
our
efforts
to
prevent
this
discriminatory
amendment
from
becoming
law.


3.
Finally,
we
now
have
more
allies
on
our
side
and
far
more
awareness
of
this
issue
among
policymakers.


As long as we have your support and the resources to keep fighting, we will not rest until our community and all community's rights are protected from these property bans. And we will prevail.
But we cannot do this without the serious resources necessary to educate lawmakers, mobilize the public, and conduct expert research. Please make a donation today to directly support the campaign so we can stop these discriminatory measures.
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Onward,
Jamal Abdi
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