What Trump's "Honor Killing" Tracking System Means

While this provision of the executive order concerns all “foreign nationals,” it seems to be focused on violence in Muslim communities. It targets immigrants from six Muslim-majority countries and affects a large portion of Muslims living in the U.S.: Pew Research Center estimates that a little more than three-quarters of this group are either immigrants or the children of immigrants. “Honor killing” also seems to refer specifically to Muslims. The politically loaded term is sometimes used to describe homicide against women who allegedly “shame” their families, often through sexual impropriety, and is sometimes justified in religious terms.

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