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Top Senate Democrat urges reversal of Trump immigration order
By/ Reena Flores/ CBS News/ January 29, 2017, 2:32 PM
WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 11: Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaks at a press
conference at the U.S Capitol on February 11, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Schumer and a group of other Democrats are calling on senate Republicans to
support the passage of emergency funding to tackle the prescription opioid
and heroin crisis.
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, is pushing President Trump
to rescind his immigration order barring refugees and citizens from seven
Muslim majority countries from traveling to the U.S.
After protests erupted nationwide over the weekend opposing the
implementation of Mr. Trump’s executive action, Schumer criticized the
order for making the U.S. “less safe” and turning “much of the world
against us.”
He wrote the message in a tweet early Sunday:
Later, Schumer vowed that members of his party -- many of whom have already
expressed vocal opposition to the ban -- would ready legislation to rescind
the order.
“It must be reversed immediately,” Schumer told reporters in New York on
Sunday. “We’re demanding the president reverse these executive orders that
go against what we are, everything we have always stood for.”
“If we get a few more Republicans, I think we might be able to pass
legislation to overturn it,” said the Democratic leader, as he stood at a
podium surrounded by recent refugees. “It will be up to getting more
Republicans.”
The signed executive order, which went into effect immediately, included a
90-day ban on travel to the U.S. by any citizens of Iraq, Iran, Libya,
Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen and also paused the broader American
refugee program.
Schumer also said he had been told by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly
that dozens of people that had been detained at airports would be allowed
to enter the country, after a federal court judge issued an order halting
deportations of those with valid visas.
Kelly reportedly said green card holders from the listed countries would not
be affected, but some in Trump’s inner circle have contradicted that
report. On CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Reince Priebus, Mr. Trump’s chief of
staff, said “wide discretion” would be given to Customs and Border Patrol
agents to deal with valid green card holders as they see fit, including
subjecting them to further questioning.
In the days since Mr. Trump signed the controversial oder, several
Republicans have come out against Mr. the travel ban, boding well for
Democratic attempts to reverse the temporary measures.
On Sunday, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. John McCain,
R-Arizona, told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the implementation of the
immigrant ban was a “confused process” that would likely give “more
propaganda” ammunition to terror groups like ISIS in their war against the
West.
“Obviously this process and these conclusions were not vetted,” McCain
said.
In a joint statement with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,
another Senate Armed Services Committee member, McCain called the ban a “
self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism,” citing what he deemed
to be the order’s overbroad ban that would also block Iraqi allied forces
from training at U.S. military bases.
Other top Republicans have criticized the ban, including Sen. Ben Sasse of
Nebraska, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, and a
host of other GOP legislators in the House.
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