Speaker, just hours after the President's misguided,
counterproductive, and objectively anti-American Muslim ban was signed,
we saw the effects. Chaos erupted at airports around the country,
including in my own district at Chicago O'Hare. Green card holders were
held in legal limbo. Refugees fleeing violence and persecution were
sent away before boarding U.S.-bound flights, even after enduring years
of thorough screening and vetting. Unfortunately, this is not the first time we have turned away
innocent people seeking safety in our country. In 1939, the German
ocean liner St. Louis Manifest and its 937 Jewish passengers, almost
all Jewish refugees, were turned away from the Port of Miami and sent
back to Europe. Of those passengers, 254 were murdered in the
Holocaust. We all bear a responsibility to learn from the evils of history so
that we will never make the same mistakes again.
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