President Trump and his senior advisors have sought to downplay the significance of the sweeping restrictions on refugees and immigrants from selected Muslim-majority countries. They have claimed that it only directly affected 109 people traveling to the United States, and have insisted that it is “not a Muslim ban” in one statement, while claiming that it was the enactment of a campaign promise to impose a Muslim ban, in another.
What is beyond doubt is that the executive order represents the United States turning its back on the worst global refugee crisis since the Second World War.
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Source: The Huffington Post
