Republican Congressman Calls On Trump To Halt Muslim Ban Order
A Republican lawmaker on Saturday called for the halting of the enforcement of Donald Trump’s Muslim ban executive order. The congressman’s district has one of the largest Syrian refugee populations in the country.
“I urge the administration to halt enforcement of this order until a more thoughtful and deliberate policy can be instated,” Congressman Charlie Dent told The New York Times.
News: @RepCharlieDent, a PA Republican who reps a large Syrian comm tells me:
“I urge the admin to halt enforcement of this order…” (1/
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 28, 2017
“…until a more thoughtful and deliberate policy can be instated” (2/2)
Dent has constituents w family who were turned back at PHL this am
— Jonathan Martin (@jmartNYT) January 28, 2017
Donald Trump’s ban on refugees and travel from Muslim-majority countries has left hundreds of thousands of legal U.S. residents, graduate students and even Google employees to be detained and blocked at airports and other ports of entry across the United States.
Democratic lawmakers have largely condemned Trump’s order as a clearly a Muslim ban that will cause religious discrimination that would endanger the lives of tens of thousands displaced by war and terrorism.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer called Trump’s executive order “backwards and nasty.”
