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India has already started creating detention camps for undocumented Muslims

The Indian government has already begun construction of detention centers for those Muslims who cannot prove that their families have been in India since 1971. The new citizenship bill will allow Non-Muslims to become nationals and thus avoid the detention centers. Most poor people in India do not keep written records of their family history or citizenship.

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