This vow would compromise the health care of millions of women in
places where the need is greatest. Taking the President's lead, I
seriously question whether his Cabinet nominees, including the Attorney
General nominee, will protect a woman's right to choose. I want to turn again to the topics of President Trump's Executive
order, basically banning Muslim immigration, because our next Attorney
General will likely weigh in on this, as well as other immigration
cases. In fact, the Justice Department is already in Federal courts
right now defending President Trump's Muslim ban. So while there is an
argument being made that this really is not a Muslim ban, I say, you
can call a duck a chicken, but if it looks like a duck, quacks like a
duck, walks like a duck, it is a duck. That is what this Executive
order is, a Muslim ban. Sadly, stoking fears in minorities and immigrants is a tragic but
undeniable part of our Nation's history, and this fear has been used to
justify the terrible treatment of minorities from Native peoples to
slaves, to immigrants who helped build our country. In 1882, decades of
incitement against Chinese immigrants resulted in the passage of the
Chinese Exclusion Act, an immoral law that banned all Chinese
immigration. This law, and others that followed, created a culture of
fear that culminated in the mass internment of Japanese Americans
during World War II. This was one of the darkest periods of American history, and it took
decades for our country to acknowledge our error.
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