“The weaponization of caste in America”, India Journal Online, January 9, 2024:
“In 2022, Californians for the first time elected a Muslim to represent them in their state senate, Senator Aisha Wahab. At the same time, they elected the first Sikh to represent them in their state assembly, Assembly member Jasmeet Bains. Both are accomplished 30-something second generation Americans, Wahab an IT professional active in multiple community service organizations and Bains a family physician who volunteers with a charity that fights child trafficking.
Immediately upon taking office at the beginning of 2023, Wahab put forward several bills that represented the interests of organized labor. That’s not surprising, considering that her campaign was disproportionately funded by trade unions. The top source of funding for the Bains campaign was the healthcare industry, and it comes as no surprise that this medical doctor with a history of child advocacy would sponsor several bills related to drug abuse and child welfare.
Much more remarkable is the one legislative priority that these two first-term legislators held in common: the sponsorship of a bill to ban “discrimination on the basis of caste,” California’s controversial SB 403…..”
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