Defending this temporary immigration suspension, White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller pointed out that “No citizen of a foreign country has a constitutional right to enter the United States.” Miller also warned of the “permanent intergenerational problem of Islamic radicalism” that has transformed much of Europe into no-go zones for native Europeans. We should be concerned about similar pockets of unassimilated immigrants in our country, such as Minnesota’s large concentration of refugees from Somalia.
Not all in Washington, however, were so quick to defend this executive action. President Trump was quick to replace the defiant acting Attorney General Sally Yates with a U.S. Attorney who would defend his appropriate executive order limiting foreign citizens from seven Muslim nations from entering into our country. Trump appointed Dana Boente, the United States attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, who said he will enforce Trump’s order.
Chuck Schumer, the new Senate minority leader, cried crocodile tears as he denounced “this evil order.”
Defiance by Democrats continued in the Senate in their unprecedented walking out of committee votes on two of Trump’s nominations to his Cabinet, Tom Price for the Department of Health & Human Services and Steven Mnuchin for the Treasury Department. Both nominees had majority support on the Senate Finance Committee and in the entire Senate, but the Democrats resorted to stall tactics to delay their confirmation.
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT), one of the longest-serving and most mild-mannered members of the U.S. Senate, criticized the stunt as “the most pathetic thing I’ve seen in my whole time in the United States Senate. I think they [the Democrats] ought to stop posturing and acting like idiots.”
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