Repealing Trump's Travel Ban Is Personal for Joe Neguse

When the Trump administration updated its travel-ban list to include the East African nation of Eritrea this winter, the battle that U.S. Representative Joe Neguse had been waging against previous iterations of Trump's travel ban suddenly became personal.

"My parents came to America nearly forty years ago from Eritrea. My parents' ability to start a new life in this country offered me and my family freedom," says the Democrat from Lafayette. "To have my parents come here with nothing and, one generation removed, to see their son serve in one of the highest offices in the land is the testament to everything that is great in our country."

Today, July 22, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the National Origin-Based Antidiscrimination for Nonimmigrants bill, or NO BAN Act, a proposal to repeal what Neguse refers to as "Trump's African ban" and ensure that the Trump administration cannot create new versions of the travel ban. The measure now moves to the Senate.