Mr. President, citizens across the country are very
concerned. In fact, they are more than concerned; they are terrified
that our President is degrading the fundamental values on which our
Nation was founded: religious tolerance, freedom of religion, the
ability to worship as you please, and a fundamental principle that we
would be welcoming to refugees, that we would be a nation that embraces
immigrants. Tonight Lady Liberty is crying. She said, ``Give me your tired, your
poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,'' but our President
has slammed the door on the tired and the poor and the huddled masses. It is an action the citizens in my home State have come out to protest. They have gone to the airport in Portland en masse 2 days in a row to
say that we are welcoming to the world, that we are not going to slam
the door shut on refugees, that we are not going to single out Muslim
nations and say: We do not want you here. Indeed, I held two townhalls over the weekend. The first was in a
gymnasium about this size.
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