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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.