Republicans Go Largely Silent As Trump Bars Refugees And Immigrants From U.S.
Source: Huffington Post
That’s just a sampling of dozens of statements being fired out by Democrats. On the Republican side, the reaction is significantly different: silence.
GOP lawmakers, who now control both chambers of Congress, have gone quiet in response to the president’s unilateral action that bans Syrian refugee resettlement in the U.S. indefinitely, shuts down the nation’s entire refugee program for 120 days, and bars all immigrants and visitors from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S. for at least 90 days.
As The New York Times’ Glenn Thrush observed on Twitter, Republicans haven’t been this quiet “since the last positive jobs report under Obama.” HuffPost spotted statements from just four GOP members of Congress, all in support of Trump’s move. One of them, Rep. Michael McCaul (R-Texas), said it’s important to deny refugees entry “to help prevent jihadists from infiltrating the United States.”
It’s worth noting that the U.S. refugee screening process is already very intensive. The likelihood of being killed by a refugee terrorist in the U.S. is 1 in 3.6 billion, per a new Cato Institute report.
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Nice comparison between statements of Republicans and Democrats. What makes the Republican comments even more cowardly is that many of them rejected Trump's proposal for a Muslim ban during the Republican primaries, so this is not even a standard issue where Democrats and Republicans would differ. Instead, they are embracing their racist base.
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