DURBIN. Mr. President, earlier today, President Trump signed a
new Executive order that bans travel to the United States from a new
list of Muslim-majority countries and bans all refugees. This new
Executive order includes some cosmetic changes, but these changes do
not alter the fact that President Trump's travel ban is still
unconstitutional and still inconsistent with the values of this Nation. This Executive order plays directly into ISIS's argument that the
United States is waging a war against a religion. The President's first
travel ban was blocked by multiple Federal courts, and his latest, I
hope, will face the same fate. Let's consider how we have arrived at this point. During his first
full week in office, President Trump signed his first Executive order
that banned Muslims and refugees. This order resulted in chaos in
airports across the country. Dozens of legal immigrants were detained,
not because they did anything wrong or because they were any danger to
our Nation. It was solely because of where they came from. There was an
Iraqi immigrant who put himself and his family in harm's way by working
with American troops as an interpreter, two disabled seniors--a husband
and wife--and a 5-year-old child. These were people who were the
victims of President Trump's first Executive order. The order faced widespread resistance from the American people, the
courts, and even from the administration itself.
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