McCain, Graham scathe Trump for immigrant ban

Posted by | January 30, 2017 08:59 | Filed under: Politics

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The Senate’s most conspicuous GOP tag team looks poised to remain a thorn in Donald’s side:

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Sunday said they fear President Donald Trump’s executive order on immigration “will become a self-inflicted wound in the fight against terrorism.”

“Our most important allies in the fight against ISIL are the vast majority of Muslims who reject its apocalyptic ideology of hatred,” the senators said in a joint statement, using an alternate acronym for the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. “This executive order sends a signal, intended or not, that America does not want Muslims coming into our country. That is why we fear this executive order may do more to help terrorist recruitment than improve our security.”

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“We should not stop green-card holders from returning to the country they call home. We should not stop those who have served as interpreters for our military and diplomats from seeking refuge in the country they risked their lives to help,” the senators, frequent Trump critics, said in the statement.
“And we should not turn our backs on those refugees who have been shown through extensive vetting to pose no demonstrable threat to our nation, and who have suffered unspeakable horrors, most of them women and children,” they added.

Earlier on Sunday, McCain expressed concern over how this new order could affect Iraqis, telling CBS’s John Dickerson that Gen. David Petraeus is “very concerned” about translators who helped the United States military.

“What about the Iraqi pilots training in Tucson Arizona, learning to fly the F-16?” McCain asked on “Face the Nation.”

He also said the executive order may fuel propaganda disseminated by ISIS.

“I think the effect will probably in some areas give ISIS some more propaganda,” he said.


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8 responses to McCain, Graham scathe Trump for immigrant ban

  1. Jungle_Bhoy January 30th, 2017 at 09:01

    .. and keep your eye on the price of oil – do you really think the middle eastern countries will take this lying down?

    • arc99 January 30th, 2017 at 12:24

      The Arab League has already condemned the move. The following Arab League members are also members of OPEC

  2. Buford2k11 January 30th, 2017 at 09:06

    The republicans are just as complicit in this as trump…McCain had his chance and blew it…the gop have let this go on for too long already…this just proves that Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell are not loyal to the United States, they have abandoned their Oaths of Office, and they have allowed a coup d’etat of our Presidency…ALL the republicans in our congress have failed in their civic duty, to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States…Proof is in their actions…

    • crc3 January 30th, 2017 at 22:53

      Yet we have moronic and uninformed voters who continue to put them in office. That with the help of voter suppression and gerrymandering. They’ve been doing these kind of things for years now so it should shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone…

  3. crc3 January 30th, 2017 at 10:57

    So what that they scathe Rump? What are they doing about impeaching him? They should keep their mouths shut if they aren’t impeaching him….

  4. oldfart January 30th, 2017 at 11:08

    Between the two…
    Do they share a pair ?!?
    They may need to get a generals ear or two
    Because for all intensive purposes, it appears to me that
    tRump is shaking the tree of liberty with impunity…

  5. William January 30th, 2017 at 15:56

    Because it’s all about national security https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/74d033a2cf9207e5730692be18d4ea9cad8034ca8e0bffa7f7e9a0f659eb20a1.jpg

  6. bpollen January 31st, 2017 at 04:09

    Don’t worry, they’ll devolve back to spineless organisms at any moment.

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