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California just added four more ‘discriminatory’ states to its travel ban
"....Texas, home to the nation’s second-largest economy, joins California’s growing list of states — Alabama, Kentucky and South Dakota were added at the same time — to which state-sponsored travel has been curbed because of similar legislation.
....California officials had already banned state-funded travel to Tennessee, North Carolina, Mississippi and Kansas. Those states were targeted by then-Attorney General Kamala D. Harris....
....The law led to an outpouring of anger nationally, and prompted businesses to leave North Carolina and numerous entertainment events to be canceled.
“There are consequences to discrimination,” Becerra told reporters at a news conference Thursday in San Francisco, according to the Times. “Restricting state-sponsored travel is a consequence.”...
'''University of Kansas officials told the Lawrence Journal-World in February that University of California officials had already scuttled plans to schedule basketball games between the two schools because of the ban on travel. Kansas was added to the ban after it enacted a “religious freedom” law last year that gives campus student groups the authority to bar members “who do not share the group’s religious beliefs or practices,” the paper reported...."
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