When President Trump first announced the Muslim ban, we were told it was temporary, 90 days, according to the executive order, or until we ``figure out what the hell is going on,'' in the President's own words. It has been 3\1/2\ years. Hundreds of thousands of Americans, including many of my own constituents, are still cut off from their loved ones, missing births, missing weddings, and missing funerals. We are still not admitting refugees to this country for the first time since we turned back Jews fleeing Hitler before World War II. And by now, we know exactly what is going on. It has nothing to do with national security, and it never did. There has never been a deadly terrorist attack carried out in America by someone from any of these countries. One of them is Iran, after all, a country whose people have themselves been targeted for extinction by ISIS. How many times do we hear from the administration that we stand by the people of Iran even as we ban them from visiting our country? These good people were sacrificed for a cheap campaign promise. They were hurt, and our country's ideals were betrayed, because someone decided it would be easier to seek scapegoats than solutions to our country's problems. It is wrong, and it should stop.
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