But what it
does mean is that Muslims are being scrutinized in a different way
simply for being Muslim. A constituent of mine called my office this week to tell me another
very disturbing story, and she told me that I could tell it here on the
floor. She was passing through immigration into Houston on her way back
home from Seattle. Dr. Angelina Godoy was traveling back from Central
America where she was doing research. She is a U.S. citizen. She said
she was so alarmed by what happened to her that she wanted to call and
get it on the record. Angelina is a human rights professor and she has traveled through
immigration many times. This was the first time she said she had
experienced anything like this. Her immigration officer asked her about
her political views. When she said that she was deeply concerned about
the President's actions, he asked her why she wasn't concerned with all
the refugees that were flooding into our borders. And he used that word
``flooding.'' When she said she didn't think that they were flooding
in, he told her that she can't tell him that based on the fake news she
is seeing on television. Mr.
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