The law - known as the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) - offers amnesty to non-Muslim illegal immigrants from Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan.
The federal ´ä·Ê¶±=´ä·Êǰ ´ä·Ê¶± Çà»ç¶± ±îÄ¡¶± government says this is to protect religious minorities fleeing persecution in the three Muslim-majority countries.
But what has made the law È«Äá¸íǰ¼îÇθô=È«Äá¸íǰ¼îÇθô especially controversial is that it comes in the wake of the government's plan to publish a nationwide register of citizens that it says will identify illegal immigrants - namely, anyone who doesn't have the documents to prove that their ancestors lived in India.
A National Register of Citizens (NRC) - published in the ·¹Çø®Ä« ¸íǰ=·¹Çø®Ä« ¸íǰ north-eastern state of Assam - saw 1.9 million people effectively ¿©ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ®=¿©ÀÚ·¹Çø®Ä«»çÀÌÆ® made stateless.
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