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Mutants are still typically looked down upon by a lot of people, however in the story of the universe, Congress did at one point try to pass a law restricting them and all, short version is that an organization (that technically was a government one) was basically turning the public opinion more against them, and the leader of the organization had been elected President of the US, however he ended up with a change of heart completely disbanding the organization entirely before that law could be passed, so now there are still people who are kind of vigilantes against mutants at least across the US.