; Whereas USCIRF has recommended that the United States Government should consider sanctions against Minister of Home Affairs Amit Shah and other principal leadership for the passage of the CAA; Whereas a headcount for the NRC held in Assam state in 2019 determined that 1,900,000 of the state’s 31,000,000 residents do not have sufficient documents proving that they or their parents lived in Assam from before 1971, and they are now likely to be stripped of their citizenship by quasi-judicial bodies known as Foreigners Tribunals; Whereas approximately 500,000 of these 1,900,000 undocumented people are Muslims and thousands of them have been uprooted from their homes, where they have lived for generations, and sent to detention centers; Whereas, according to Human Rights Watch, government operatives in states ruled by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party have resorted to summary punishments by demolishing Muslim homes and businesses without legal authorization; Whereas, according to Federation of Indian American Christian Organizations, India’s 40,000,000 Christians are increasingly targeted by police and vigilante mobs throughout India, leading to a steep rise in incidents of violence against Christians, with 1,198 incidents recorded in 2022, which represents a staggering increase from the 761 such incidents reported in 2021; Whereas International Christian Concern, a United States-based nongovernmental organization, has reported that anti-blasphemy and anti-forced conversion laws, which effectively criminalize minority religious beliefs and freedom of conscience, are becoming increasingly common throughout India and have led to numerous cases of violence against religious minorities; Whereas a culture of impunity for radical Hindu nationalists has led to an unprecedented level of violence against Christian, Muslims, and other vulnerable religious minorities: Now, therefore, be it