Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, is pushing President Trump to rescind his immigration order barring refugees and citizens from seven Muslim majority countries from traveling to the U. S.
After protests erupted nationwide over the weekend opposing the implementation of Mr. Trump\u2019s executive action, Schumer criticized the order for making the U. S. \u201cless safe\u201d and turning \u201cmuch of the world against us.\u201d
He wrote the message in a tweet early Sunday:
Exec Orders make US less safe & secure; turn much of the world against us. Joining recent refugees today to call on Pres Trump to rescind.
Later, Schumer vowed that members of his party — many of whom have already expressed vocal opposition to the ban — would ready legislation to rescind the order.
\u201cIt must be reversed immediately,\u201d Schumer told reporters in New York on Sunday. \u201cWe\u2019re demanding the president reverse these executive orders that go against what we are, everything we have always stood for.\u201d
\u201cIf we get a few more Republicans, I think we might be able to pass legislation to overturn it,\u201d said the Democratic leader, as he stood at a podium surrounded by recent refugees. \u201cIt will be up to getting more Republicans.\u201d
The signed executive order, which went into effect immediately, included a 90-day ban on travel to the U. S. by any citizens of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen and also paused the broader American refugee program.
Schumer also said he had been told by Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly that dozens of people that had been detained at airports would be allowed to enter the country, after a federal court judge issued an order halting deportations of those with valid visas.
Kelly reportedly said green card holders from the listed countries would not be affected, but some in Trump\u2019s inner circle have contradicted that report. On CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation,\u201d Reince Priebus, Mr. Trump\u2019s chief of staff, said \u201cwide discretion\u201d would be given to Customs and Border Patrol agents to deal with valid green card holders as they see fit, including subjecting them to further questioning.
In the days since Mr. Trump signed the controversial oder, several Republicans have come out against Mr. the travel ban, boding well for Democratic attempts to reverse the temporary measures.
On Sunday, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona, told CBS\u2019 \u201cFace the Nation\u201d that the implementation of the immigrant ban was a \u201cconfused process\u201d that would likely give \u201cmore propaganda\u201d ammunition to terror groups like ISIS in their war against the West.
\u201cObviously this process and these conclusions were not vetted,\u201d McCain said.
In a joint statement with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, another Senate Armed Services Committee member, McCain called the ban a \u201cself-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism,\u201d citing what he deemed to be the order\u2019s overbroad ban that would also block Iraqi allied forces from training at U. S. military bases.
Other top Republicans have criticized the ban, including Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, Sen. Susan Collins of Maine, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona, and a host of other GOP legislators in the House.<\/p>\n

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