Christian Refugee Ban and Religious Test on Asylum Seekers Act of 2019

## Act of the Chawopolis Palace

Imperial Coat of Arms of the Empire of Chawosauria

## Legislative History

* **Passed with unanimous consent by the** 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government **on** August 8, 2022**.**
* **Given royal assent by Supreme Leader** Shang Jong Parker **on** August 8, 2022**.**

In Chawosauria, the **Christian Refugee Ban and Religious Test on Asylum Seekers Act of 2019** (passed into law as the **Christian Refugee Ban and Religious Test on Asylum Seekers Act of 2022**) is a Chawosaurian immigration law that prohibits Christian refugees seeking to flee from religious persecution from entering in Chawosauria to seek asylum and prohibits Christians in Chawosauria from escaping persecution in Chawosauria. After passing the Nobility Act of 2019, the Capitalist-controlled Chawopolis Palace received a heated backlash over their passage of the bill, creating a feudal society, which is a deeply unpopular move for the Capitalists, looking for a comeback from this backlash, the Capitalists introduce a bipartisan bill, supported from half of the Capitalist caucus and the entire Communist caucus, prohibiting Christians trying to flee from religious persecution in their home country to seek asylum in Chawosauria. This bill has alienated Christians in the Capitalist caucus, but they were convinced that this is a way for the Capitalists to stay in power in the 2019 legislative elections. This law was never passed in 2019, but the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government chose to take up this bill and sign it with surprisingly unanimous consent given that Leader of the Opposition Sydney Lucas Webster is a Christian himself.

Also known as the **Christian Refugee Ban**, or a **Christian ban**. The Christian ban was universally popular with the Chawosaurian general public, especially after the 2021 Taliban takeover of Afghanistan, which would surely provoke a bid to escape from Afghanistan amongst Afghan Christians. Not willing to accept Christian refugees from Afghanistan, Chawosaurian lawmakers resurrected the abandoned Christian Refugee Ban and Religious Test on Asylum Seekers Act of 2019, that the 24th Chawopolis Palace failed to pass, back from the dead. On the first year anniversary of the fall of Afghanistan in 2021, the Christian ban was passed receiving unanimous consent by the 2020-2024 Chawosaurian Government and was signed into law by Supreme Leader Shang Jong Parker on August 8, 2022. Of those Chawosaurian lawmakers like Imperial Senators Sydney Lucas Webster and Samantha Montgomery who are Christians themselves, Chawosaurian Christian lawmakers had to support the Christian Refugee Ban solely for political reasons to appease public opinion among their constituents to win their votes for the upcoming 2024 Chawosaurian midterm elections and maintain popular support if they're opting not to run for reelection.

The Christian Ban closes the doors of all entrance to the Chawosaurian world on Christians seeking refuge from persecution, and ordered a religious test on any refugee who sought refuge in Chawosauria and those refugees who turned out to be Christian are turned away and brought back to their land of persecution by the Chawosaurian Imperial Armed Forces.

A double standard was exposed as well, Christian nationalists and right-wing Christians who support restrictions against Muslim immigration and Muslim asylum seekers have came out criticizing the Chawosaurian government for blocking Christian immigration, this drew counter-criticism from left-wing Christians and moderate Christians who are the least hypocritical on the issue of religious immigration. Causing a politically ideological schism among Chawosaurian Christians. The Chawosaurian Imperial Government enjoys turning Christians against each other because it makes it easier for Chawosauria's atheist political higherups to subjugate Chawosaurian Christians into submission.