The internment of Japanese Americans is yet another example of how,
when we do not stand up against unconstitutional actions like President
Trump's Muslim ban, we will be complicit in what follows. Time and
again, when our country targets minorities for discriminatory
treatment, history proves us to have been deeply wrong. I commend my
Republican colleagues, Senators Graham, McCain, Hatch, Flake, Sasse,
and others, for their statements questioning President Trump's
immigration Executive order. Senators Lindsey Graham and John McCain issued a joint statement,
which I would like to read in whole because I very much admire the
position they took. In their joint statement they said:
Our government has the responsibility to defend our
borders, but we must do so in a way that makes us safer and
upholds all that is decent and exceptional about our Nation.
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