Politicians. pundits. and celebrities will be tempted to say whatever they can to get the news cameras pointed at them. The Governor of Illinois. my home State. could not resist saying our State was closed to Syrians fleeing the terror of ISIS and the Assad regime. The Governor of Louisiana. the son of immigrants. running for President of the United States. a nation of immigrants. said "no" to refugees. The Governors of a dozen other States did so. too. A Senator whose parents came as refugees from Cuba fleeing there has said "no." too. This is despicable and cowardly and precisely the kind of reaction ISIS wanted. ISIS could not have written a better script. The free people of the world are turning their backs on people seeking safety and freedom. When we sent Jews back to Germany and when we sent Japanese to internment camps. we regretted it. and we will regret this as well. We have had candidates actually say that refugees seeking safety in the strongest nation in the world must first pass a test to prove they are from an acceptable religion. In the United States of America they said this. In the 21st century.
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