“When I first heard about Senate Bill 147, I had nightmares because of World War II. I fear the same for this bill.” A pair of bills, SB 147 and SB 711, could restrict people like Saba Khonsari’s father from owning property, based on where he was born:
My dad, an immigrant from Iran, bought our childhood home before he was a citizen of the United States. My parents still own this home where their four kids grew up, and where their grandkids now splash in the pool and ride their bikes around the driveway. When I read the text of SB 147, a xenophobic bill seeking to prohibit the right to own property based on national origin, I immediately thought of that house and everything it took to get there.
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