The bill, which amassed 233 votes for and 183 against, will now move on to the Republican-controlled Senate, where it is unlikely to pass.
But activists said the vote was an important step toward doing away with a ban that has kept families apart, contributed to significant emotional distress and left people in dangerous conditions overseas.
The travel ban, which has been in effect in some form since Trump’s first year in office, is discriminatory and has done serious damage to Muslims in the U.S. and abroad, according to Democratic proponents of the bill and advocacy groups. Presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden told Muslim Americans on a Zoom call earlier this week that he would repeal the ban on the first day of his administration if he was elected president.
Since the current legislation to end the ban is unlikely to be embraced by the Republicans or Trump, “the most direct and effective way to repeal [the ban] is to elect a new president. So when somebody like Joe Biden says he will repeal it, it’s extremely important,” Alzayat told HuffPost. “That’s a promise he made and that’s a promise we know he will deliver.”
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