Just because my friends' unending attempts to normalize
such misguided governance have become almost numbing in their effect
does not make such attempts any less appalling to those of us who
believe in the scientific method and a clean and safe environment. Indeed, the paucity of care that we see here today in ridding the
books of a regulation that hardworking and good people took 7 years to
write with, mind you, input from all stakeholders, is starting to look
like a variation of a theme when we consider the paucity of care the
Republicans in the White House have exhibited over the past 10 days. As everyone knows, last Friday, President Trump issued an executive
order banning Muslims from certain countries from entering the United
States and callously shutting down the refugee program. What ensued,
and I predict will continue to ensue as we speak here today, was
nothing short of chaos. Scores and scores of people were detained for
hours, including green card holders, children, the elderly, and even
Iraqi translators who had helped the United States during the
insurgency. Equally as horrifying as this Muslim ban that is the antithesis of
everything we value as Americans is the ineptitude in which such a
sweeping policy was implemented. Relevant agencies were not even
consulted.
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