Tillerson has the moral compass necessary to counsel the President
toward a coherent U.S. foreign policy that advances our national
security and embraces our values and ideals or if he will be another
yes-man, enabling the risky, chaotic whims of a demagogue President,
who is leading us on a march of folly. The American people deserve to know because if the last 10 days are
any indication, the Trump administration is on a track to be the most
dangerous and divisive in history. Nothing so painfully illustrates
that point as Friday's Executive order banning refugees and certain
Muslim immigrants from entering the United States. As a citizen of this
great Nation, I am deeply offended by and ashamed of the President's
Executive actions. When the news of this developed over the weekend, I happened to be
attending a family wedding in the Miami area, a city rich in its
immigrant character and its welcoming nature to people of many faiths
and backgrounds. Miami was also the city where one of the most shameful episodes in
our history transpired, where in 1993, the St. Louis, filled with
Jewish refugees trying to flee the horrors of Nazi Germany waited for
days, seeing the lights of the city ashore, seeking shelter and refuge. Shamefully, we turned the St. Louis away and condemned many of its
passengers to death in the Holocaust.
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