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On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
the language around it, you know, the portion of it that said, well, we will give preference to Christians over Muslims, the degree to which it was called a, quote, 'Muslim ban,' which did come out of some people's mouths, the way we do that is deeply damaging to our effort to rely on those allies in the Muslim world that we need to defeat this extremism.
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Martin Smith
Democratic · Washington

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Smith criticizes the damaging impact of labeling immigration policies as a 'Muslim ban.'

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