Please enlighten me/us with a quote/reference from CAA, which states, "CAA does not require any documentation as it has been drafted in that way by design."
or all cooked up story is your personal twisted opinion. Thanks
Firstly, You have to understand the reason why this BJP led government has passed CAA.
Assam NRC which was done per the directions of the Supreme Court of India resulted in two things
1) The total number of illegal immigrants identified by Assam NRC turned out be only ~19,00,000 people. For decades BJP built a narrative that there are millions of illegal Bangladeshis living in India and BJP would throw them out of the country if it came to power. The results of NRC meant that BJP's narrative built for over 3 decades has fallen flat.
2) Over 80% of the illegals identified by Assam NRC turned out to be Hindu Bengalis. Illegal Muslims turned out to be minuscule. This meant that BJP would be seen as throwing out the Hindus instead of the Muslims.
To recover from this PR disaster, BJP led government has passed CAA in a hurry to ensure that illegal Hindus would not be put in the detention camps.
Now coming to the drafting of the law itself, CAA had to be draft in such way that it would not violate the constitution. Article 14 of the Indian constitution requires Doctrine of Reasonable Classification.
So the following steps were taken to meet this criteria
1) Limited the CAA to only countries which are neighbors of India and have an Islamic constitution
2) The exemption was provided to people who are considered as minorities. This is where BJP has to grudgingly include Christians even though Christians are not their intended beneficiaries. Making an exemption only for the Hindus would have meant that CAA would have been unconstitutional.
Mandating strict documentation under CAA would have meant that BJP was taking steps which would be looked as harassing the illegal Hindus. They could not afford another PR disaster. Hence CAA was drafted requiring absolutely no documentation. In fact it does not require people to prove that they were persecuted. This is a blessing in disguise for all the other illegal immigrants who could sneak in along with the illegal Hindus.
This is the inside story.