Pingree Says Revised Travel Ban is Inhumane, Will Make America Less Safe

"It is deeply unsettling that without rationale President Trump has arbitrarily chosen to ban immigration from six Muslim-majority countries and halt refugees from seeking safety here. Over the weekend, we saw on Twitter how little President Trump relies on evidence to inform his snap decisions as Commander-in-Chief. His revised executive order banning refugees and immigrants from six Muslim-majority nations is another case of irrational judgment. Given that there are no Trump hotels in the six Muslim-majority nations effected by this order, it is troubling that he would sign an order that will impact thousands of lives, but not his bottomline.

"The impact of his first travel ban was destructive to communities across Maine and the nation. In Portland, a 20-year-old Iraqi immigrant named Banah Al-Hanfy, whose father served as an interpreter for the U.S. military in Iraq, was stranded and left in harm's way because of President Trump's erratic, irrational, and inhumane travel ban. While I am glad stories like Banah's have put pressure on the President to take Iraq off the travel ban list, his new executive order is no less harmful to our national security or the fabric of America. Immigrants build our nation and keep Maine's economy moving. It is wrong and un-American to ban people from coming to our nation to build a better life."

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