We serve there together. I can assure you our
experience leads us to know--and anyone that is on the Intelligence
Committee knows now--that what we are about to experience is a handout
to our enemies and will cause additional shock waves in the
international community. The result of this amateur hour rollout was a Customs and Border
Patrol agency that wasn't sure how to even execute the order. From
management on down, no one knew what was going on while scores of
people were riddled with fear that their realization of a free and fair
life here in the United States was lost forever. People with visas and
green cards were held for hours. Will someone please tell me what it
means to issue a visa to persons if they cannot utilize the visa? People were denied access to a lawyer even after a Federal Court
order stayed the executive action. Here is a small sampling of the immediate impact of this Muslim ban:
A 5-year-old boy, a U.S. citizen, was detained for several hours. 5
years old--a truer threat to our national security we have never faced. An 88-year-old man and his 83-year-old wife, both wheelchair bound and
both possessing green cards, were detained for hours. He is legally
blind, and she recently suffered a stroke--detained for hours. A Ph.D. student at Stony Brook University, who has lived in the
United States for 12 years, was detained for more than 24 hours.
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